Dee

May 2, 2025

Beware of scammers using CarandClassic

Beware of scammers using CarandClassic. I have been advised by CarandClassic of a scam being operated by people using names such as Keith Miller, Stephen Woods, Gareth Phillips and Chris Byrne. I saw a Land Rover Series 2 and enquired about it. The person calling himself Keith Miller got back to me but when I asked for a link to the listing he was unwilling to steer me in the right direction. He instead sent me, unsolicited, a passport photo of him and when I agreed to buy the car he said he would send me the listing with the payment link. This seemed a bit odd but he had built a rapport with me saying this was a divorce sale and that he was working in France. I once again looked for the Land Rover on CarandClassic, could not find it. He sent me an email with a link to the listing. It was the car that he had sent me pictures of via email so this made me feel more at ease but I then opened the payment link and the name was Benjamin Olah. This rung alarm bells but I proceeded to start the payment until Revolut said not to proceed as this seemed like a scam. I stopped the payment and contacted CarandClassic immediately and was told that a scam is being operated by people using CarandClassic. Please be very very careful, if it feels odd it is a scam. Do not part with your hard earned cash to thieves. Here is the response from CarandClassic to my email. "This person will have contacted you initially through Autotrader, eBay, Motors, GumTree or some other platform and suggested he has the vehicle you are interested in, that he will place an advert with us and you can purchase the vehicle using our Escrow facility. When it comes to payment, the link he will send you will be to an account he has set up, not our Escrow account. He uses several names i.e. Keith Miller, Stephen Woods, Gareth Phillips and Chris Byrne are those we know of, although there may be others. He can even produce ID in these names, but please be aware they are all fraudulent.