Car Park White Van High End Audio Scam - Beware

My Dad nearly got scammed today.

Was in the woolies car park at Currambine shops when we were approached by two guys in a white Toyota HiAce van tring to sell us some high end audio stuff that they had spare from doing jobs installing them.

Very convincing stuff and they've got a website set up for it all. They were offering us a projector and surround sound for $500-1000 and very nearly got hus.

Luckily Dad went by his motto of 'if it sounds to good to be true......'

Checked it out on the net when I got back in and sure enough

www.inmycommunity.com.au/news-and-views/local-news/Beware-speaker-scam/7573988/

Also, watch out for it on gumtree as some people are trying to sell it on.

If anyone is approached by them then get the rego and call 1300133408.

 


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yeh mate they have been doin

Tue, 2012-07-17 15:17

yeh mate they have been doin it for years

 

see them all the time

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Similar incident

Tue, 2012-07-17 15:18

at Riverton Forum last month, guys took off pretty quick when i started asking a few questions.

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 Got appraoched today same

Tue, 2012-07-17 18:35

 Got appraoched today same spot... they ran for the hills when I started writing their rego down... strangest thing is its the same rego as one that asked me about 6 months ago

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i seen them out the front of

Tue, 2012-07-17 15:29

i seen them out the front of my shop in cockburn central trying to sell some stuff, audio bits, just driving up to people asking them if they wanna buy anythink etc

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when i was on my p's (20

Tue, 2012-07-17 15:38

when i was on my p's (20 years ago) they were giving it a go . that was for large pa speakers . a mate bought a pair and he still has them and yes they do crank!

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 I'm Alex's dad.Couldnt get

Tue, 2012-07-17 16:27

 I'm Alex's dad.

Couldnt get the rego numbers but apparently they've done it loads of times. 

Swarmy little f@$£ers

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Seriously

Tue, 2012-07-17 16:40

who in their right mind buys shit out of the back of a van?

Deserve what you get if you get scammed IMO.

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Have to say

Tue, 2012-07-17 18:59

 plus one to that comment.

 

Gotta be kidding me that people still go for that shat!

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 I have had them approach me

Tue, 2012-07-17 19:40

 I have had them approach me twice now and never bought anything but even though it's cheap crap some people have reported that it works fine. Makes you wander for the price it may be worth giving it a go. And no I don't own a white van haha.

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 Yeah there's comments on the

Tue, 2012-07-17 22:55

 Yeah there's comments on the link saying that it can be ok, also comments saying that some end up on fire. Wouldn't like to try?

 
Some people have been stung for over 2k!!
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they have aproached me b4

Tue, 2012-07-17 20:43

 they aproached me b4,a couple of months ago in forrestfield while sitting eating my kfc and asked if i was intrested in a set of surround sound speakers,to which i replied not intrested,and they took of straight away in a white van aswel..

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 For anyone who's been

Tue, 2012-07-17 22:59

 For anyone who's been approached, what did they look like. One of them was Asian  looking and the other Caucasian, about mid twenties.

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 Mate I think you will find

Thu, 2012-07-19 07:48

 Mate I think you will find there are heaps of them getting around.

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 I reckon I saw the cops had

Thu, 2012-07-19 19:17

 I reckon I saw the cops had a van fit this description pulled over by 2 4x4 marked cops today at the whitfords Marmion intersection. 2 blokes wearing hi-vis tshirts. They had them pulled over for more than hour and a half

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