Yep. Happened to my dad as well. We found his ad on Craigslist and checked into it to see if it was legit even though we were pretty positive it was a scam. SCAM, SCAM, SCAM.
i recived a call from motorbike transport inc. and thay want 415.26 to deliver the bike and thay want 250.00 deposet and the remainder on delivery well gues what i found them out befor thay got my money so if i could get my hands on thsy would be chokeing on [***] begous i would take thair heads off and [***] in thear necks
they told me the same thing but that they are from mississippi.i just reported them to the state police post because i sent my money than they wanted me to change the receivers name so i investigated their company a little more and found out they have been scamming people.thank god i put a hold on my money and got it back but i hope the cops can track these people down before they get over on anyone else
yep they tried to get me. Said they were in Texas and when I said, "Great, I will be in Texas next week, what is your address?" No reply....lol Same scam with the trike, dead son, moving to Alaska... even sent me a copy of the title and VIN numbers on the bike. Crazy!
I checked into this over this weekend too. Same price of $415.26 to take the bike from Texas to NJ and he refused to answer questions. Just kept telling me to give my info and a deposit so he can invoice me. I went as far as calling him. Did speak to them and when I got the same [***] on the phone, I told him, "Yeah sure! I'm not in town right now but I will be tomorrow. Let me get home and I'll contact you again with all the info required and a deposit."
Got home and did my research and this page was one of them and the ad was gone. Craigslist / Jersey Shore.
I found it a bit suspicious that a bike in Texas was listed in NJ and when asked 3 times why and got no answer, thats when I felt i needed to look deeper into this. The Google phone thing was also another red flag.
Anyone with this guy should report the incident to www.ic3.gov - these kinds of scams I'm pretty sure are a federal crime.