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SCAM! Person text me interested to buy my car and demanded I run a car report by clicking on a suspicious link even after I offered to provide a report and/or my VIN for them to run the report themselves.

We just got the same text from this person as well about 3 hrs ago. When my boyfriend tried to pull up the link he told us to use it didn't come up. My boyfriend then text him back, however he never responded back.  I'm sure they are trying to get his credit card #.

My vehicle is listed on auto trader. Earlier I got a text from this number asking me to go to "myvinhistory.com" which is an alias of "vinchecked.com" and fill out their form, and they told me to email the result to "[email protected]".

Unfortunately I fell for it and actually did the transaction without doing my due diligence ($12.95). I think I got scammed. I put a freeze on my credit card temporarily and am going to follow up tomorrow and see what happens. If it turns out to be a scam as I think it is, I'll attempt to reverse the credit card charges.

I did get a receipt from the transaction from "Vinchecked" with an email of "[email protected]". In their email they link to their website "vinchecked" but it actually takes you to "vincheckpro.com" (which appears to possibly be a legit site); so this "vinchecked" is possibly masquerading as "vincheckpro".

I'll report back and see what happens...

Sorry, following up on my previous post. It looks like they have a third domain name setup: "vinhistorychecks.com" -- all of these go to the exact same site, which is suspicious in and of itself. The link they sent me to to the PDF with my supposed VIN number report still isn't working, and looks pretty suspicious and insecure too, which makes me doubt the sites legitimacy even further... Sigh.

A response from an ad on Auto Trader.  Tell them to run the report themselves and leave it at that.