By: Vesnovskaya Maria, The US police have found out that three Russians were involved (not two as it was earlier reported) in a confidence game with the fake sale of cars via the Internet across the US. The investigators discovered that the man who was put in prison in California and produced a German passport was actually a Russian citizen.In total six people were arrested in case of the car sale scam and all of them come from the post-Soviet countries. The swindlers used popular websites such as eBay Motors, Auto Trader, Yahoo Auto and Craigslist for placing fake advertisements for cars for sale. Clients were asked to transfer deposits for the cars to the accounts of PayPal and eBay pay systems, where the money was to be kept until the deal was closed. Once a client made his choice that sum was to be transferred to the account of the car dealers. But in reality once the money was transferred to the accounts of the pay systems, the swindlers withdrew it in small amounts and transferred those sums to their accounts in Europe. The shysters managed to play the con-game for 3 years and-a-half and made more than $4 million. Читать далее, Source: Voice of Russia.
