How to find a car by its VIN Number

[m3f_lifeguard85]

Hey Guys,

I really need some help! I was in the process of buying a 95 M3 from Athens, Greece. I thought I had everything figured out, like there was going to be no problems in recieving the car. I sent the money via Western Union, and now I haven't heard from the lady in a week, and come to find out that shipping company she said she was going to use only ships friggin veggies! So, heres the deal. I have the VIN number of the car, and I just need to know how to locate a vehical by its VIN number, if anyone could please help me, I would be most thankful!

Brenton

[m3f_salty_80d4b8491b]

Hey Guys,

I really need some help! I was in the process of buying a 95 M3 from Athens, Greece. I thought I had everything figured out, like there was going to be no problems in recieving the car. I sent the money via Western Union, and now I haven't heard from the lady in a week, and come to find out that shipping company she said she was going to use only ships friggin veggies! So, heres the deal. I have the VIN number of the car, and I just need to know how to locate a vehical by its VIN number, if anyone could please help me, I would be most thankful!

Brenton

You have paid money to a foreign stranger for an M3?? I hope it works out. Hopefully you can track them down and do justice if not. A Greek BMW dealer might be able to pull the vehicles maintenance history, and possibly the Greek motor vehicle license bureau could come up with an address if you could prove you were the owner. I think it will be very hard to find this out from your end in the US, and Greece is known for excessive layers of red tape when it comes to the government. Perhaps bribery works over there. Do you have any contacts in Greece?

[m3f_Eric1855_e8e56eaefb]

Sounds like the typical scam to me. Good luck, however, I think you will find that the VIN is probably false, or stolen.

[m3f_Pharo51]

I almost did that last year, then after talking to a friend of mine who works in a law enforcement field he told me often times those cars a stohlen which is why they sound like such a good deal. I was looking at a 2001 M3 in sonic blue with 42000 miles for 13.5 and it said it was in N.Y. it was on auto trader and might still be. It sounded to good to be true. the guy sent me an e-mail saying the car was "back" in the uk and he would ship it.

[m3f_Eric1855_e8e56eaefb]

I almost did that last year, then after talking to a friend of mine who works in a law enforcement field he told me often times those cars a stohlen which is why they sound like such a good deal. I was looking at a 2001 M3 in sonic blue with 42000 miles for 13.5 and it said it was in N.Y. it was on auto trader and might still be. It sounded to good to be true. the guy sent me an e-mail saying the car was "back" in the uk and he would ship it.



The way those scams work is by using a fake Escrow account. There is no car to begin with. The car happens to be overseas to disqualify people from coming to look or testdrive. You wire the money to the fake escrow account and bam, the guy disappears. There have been several government, Ebay, Paypal, and Escrow.com warnings released on exactly this subject.



Here is an article on an interview with one of the thieves that do it on how it works.



http://www.msnbc.com/news/957191.asp