All right Sup Forums, I need your help to troll this scammer out of existence.
Here's the deal:
I am searching for a used car for my first vehicle. It's taken a few months, but I've finally managed to work up enough money to finally get a car. The trouble is, finding one that actually is worth having.
Through my dumpster-diving on various used car websites, I picked through a bunch of actual broken cars to finally find what seemed to be the best deal that I'd ever seen: A 2009 Nissan Maxima for $2,500. My price limit? $3,000. This was an amazing car *below my max price*.
This was almost too good to be true.
I instantly messaged the seller and she responds fairly quickly, by the name of Caroline. Caroline was short, sweet and to the point. Apparently she had just gotten divorced and had decided to move back to her home in New York (decidedly out of state for yours truly) and needed the car gone.
I was the man for that job.
So then, after a bit of back and forth, she sends me her driver's license, extensive pictures of the car and plenty of information about it. She states that, even though I found it on Cars.com, she wanted to send it through eBay Motors for their middle-man way of handling payments. I agree, and she sends me the invoice.
That's when things get a bit weird.
The invoice was all correct. It had everything from the graphics to a customer support number to a friggin' ID number for the listing. But how you were supposed to pay was in *BitCoin*.
I looked it up, and eBay does deal with BitCoin, but never as payment. I decide to call the number in the email. Instantly, "Michael From eBay Support" picks up and I run through the email with him. He says it's fine and uses the pin number held within to look up the trade.
Satisfied, I tell my father who then proceeds to ridicule me for calling number to verify legitimacy in the very email that I was trying to legitimize.
Needless to say, I try calling the *actual* eBay support.
