Criminal mindset - "I just got out of prison for writing bad checks for exotic cars. What should I do today, print up some fake checks and go Ferrari shopping!"

I did a little bit of searching recently on the guy who scammed me on the GT-R deal - allegedly he is dead. But there are conflicting reports.

You should send match box replicas of the car you’re selling to those scammers over seas

Actually .....no I've never heard the story of the F50 but I am willing to learn.

Don't try these at home kids. Like, seriously. You go to prison.

I would not sell any high end car AND let it leave the lot until the checks were verified and cleared, OR the money was transferred into the dealer account and fully verified as legit. I can't imagine letting an expensive product leaving the lot without guaranteeing the payment first. That sounds like a terrible business practice.

Ed, Rob, and Doug are the best tellers of stories. How about an audiobook series by yall..??.

Right now I can just see that gtr guy laughing in a car with his friend having a beer saying "hey you remember that time I had you call that dealer pretending you was a detective" lmfao 😂 😂🤣 😂🍻

The biggest car scam out there is Elio Motors. How those guys are still not behind bars is beyond me.

The one and only time I scammed a dealer, he managed to scam me too. I traded in to him a Chevy 4x4 with non working front axle and he sold me a Toyota with a bad rod bearing. After we both figured out what we had done to each other we had a good laugh over it but never did business again. :P

I recently sold one of my 69 chargers for 35k. Guy tried the check scam, next guy met me at my bank, they put 7day hold on his check. I held the car for 7days, he was agitated but he did it.

If the most u ever got scammed on was $5K in ur line of work, ur doing really well. I own a landscaping business in Florida and I’ve had employees and business pals that have scammed me out of much more. Not that I’m proud of that but obviously I’ve been taken advantage of because of my good nature and it doesn’t feel good when it happens. Luckily, I have many great clients and I’m able to move on happily in business.

Let me tell you, I’m a real attorney and some time ago, I went to a local dealer to buy a car. I gave them a check and to my surprise they wouldn’t release the car until the check cleared, which was the next day or two days later. I had no problem with that, I was glad they cared about everything being legit. Then I had a different situation when I went to a local dealer, I didn’t even had my checkbook with me, it was late right before they closed for a day and the dealer almost forced me to take the car on my signature only. I refused to do that, but there are still both types of dealers out there. Yet another time, the dealer let his employee drive me to my house, so I could take my checkbook and pay them. I got possession of the car immediately after that.

Oh that sweet, sweet Rabbit burn at 3:16

Cool story! Algar used to be owned my cousin's ex father-in-law. This channel is a gem for car enthusiasts.

An adult who wears that T-Shirt "Sarcasm, just one of my many talents" scream immaturity and imo encapsulates Doug perfectly.

You know it'll be a good story anytime it involves Ed, Doug, or Rabbit.

I see nothing shady about these stories. Signed; guy who dumped Viper in storage unit.

THATS OUR CAR AT 2:58 !!!!!!! We bought it from Doug about a month ago

I always love Doug's stories. Doug's 'I was the flipped car manufacturers hate' inspired me to start flipping

I like this guy! I worked auto theft as a Cop for 9 years. TY for not giving the full details of how the scams are pulled

"This check is no good." "That's ok. The car is no good now too."

Hi Doug - thanks for the silver 2009 - 911! Running great. Jon

I was a dealer for some 10 years and our F&I guy would accept personal etc. checks but ALWAYS contacted the bank on the check to make sure collected funds were there. Also, we'd hold onto the title till the check cleared.

This was around 2003 or 04: I had a 95 Kawasaki sport bike and I'd put an exhaust & jet kit on it. The bike was flawless and it ran great. Where I live; sportbike riders stay out late to avoid traffic. I rode home on a Monday night @ well above 140 mph and got home around 2am. I walked outside to drive my car to work at 6:40am and my bike had been stolen. That was a 14 years ago but, I know no one followed me home because I was going too fast. I must conclude a local thief stole my bike.

I got scammed $25 one time. I was pissed.... can’t imagine how these people felt, lol

There is the famous leasing scam too. Around here a guy went into a MB store and leased an E63 and a ML63 with fake ID. Made the first lease payment and then vanished into thin air with the cars, likely shipped overseas.

That was good tip on the Range Rover. I had one of those cars and I did not remember that detail. Nice catch.

All I could think of was hoovie during the intro

Last time i was this early, Doug DeMuro had one KZfaq channel

RIP mustache 😢

Never buy a car from an unknown person and without seeing the car in person. Basically almost all scams involve fake checks and money wiring.

Now if only I can combine my new knowledge of how to scam car dealers with the advice yesterday on how to order exclusive hypercars [wheels turning]

His Story Telling is so Smooth, Calm and on point that made me Pause the video and go grab me some Hot Cocoa... lol :)

One of the things pop culture won't teach you is that a good salesman is honest and trustworthy. Getting a customer in the door for the first time usually costs money, repeat customers are free. And the best advertising is word of mouth, so every happy customer is a salesman for you. Honesty is the only strategy that's sustainable.

After 4+ years of living in the town just under SwitchCars, I can't believe I never realized how close they were to me. I bet Doug does get the occasional fan/visitor who pretends to be interested in one of his cars but just wants a selfie with him lol

Oh yay!!!! Its the Mexican stig!!! Love these videos. Of course doug knows the scams....

The quantity of GT3 photos in this video is excellent.

I learned at the ripe age of 19 that once a shop gets a hold of your car ITS THEIRS until you pay any amount they say you owe them. It was a Pantera and probably before I was a mile away they had already stripped the engine and trans. LS short they blocked it behind a dozen other cars and claimed I owed then X amount for the services done to the eng/trans. After 3 months I had to cough up the cash, towed it away and sure enough the engine was not the original and locked up and the trans was in pieces. Took it to court, he filed bankruptcy and put the new name in his wife's name. Eventually my lawyer said he could not pursue the case without being paid upfront. Expensive lesson but if someone is a straight up con and lier and knows the way courts work not much you can do.

Was about to buy a corvette sting ray on eBay for $69,000 AUD. I still can’t work out if it’s a scam. Spoke to him on phone. Nice guy. Planning to see it next week. Car should be worth at least $100K+.

buying and selling penny recipes on ebay is a common way for both buyers and sellers to boost feedback scores. you dont need to create 100 of accounts to do it.

“I’ve sold that GT a couple of more times” jeez.

Even the local craigslist seems to generate scam incoming calls. You can be selling trash can lids and somebody will call you trying to scam. I've met many people who stopped picking up their business phone. Interesting changes taking place.

This explains why I have yet to hear from the Nigerian prince who I sent the chasihers check for his Nissian GTR. Damn it!

Does anyone know how to make an honest living anymore? Thank you for the education it is good to know there is someone out there looking out for the rest of us honest people!

real dealers dont get scamed, real dealers scam the scamers. 😎

This foo just told like 5 stories in 13 min

You gotta be so darn careful these days! I dont buy a car unless I can actually see it.

You're doing a brilliant job well done, I really hate scammers.

Nearly half a million subscribers! Congrats

Best channel on KZfaq , when I come back to see family in GA I hope to meet Ed cheers from Stamford CT

Doug wth you just gave everyone watching an idea for the perfect scam at the end.

Haha I messed with a scammer once and got him to send a check that was obviously not able to be cashed. When I stopped messing with him and confronted him, he actually got passed off at me for leading him on and wasting HIS time!! Lol! It was a week of laughs!

In Sydney 1982 the used car dealers told us to sit in a private room and decide the price I wanted for my trade in. They were to go in another room and decide the best price they could give me. Then we would meet again. In my room we never spoke a word. I was suspicious. Years later they were exposed for having the rooms wired so they could get the upper hand in the deal.

I dont know how I found your channel but I'm hooked!

I got one for you, I used to work for a warehouse distributor of high performance , high end vehicle parts, i worked graveyard shift all by myself, this young guy calls me up one night, drunk, all parts for a 911, his total close to 150,000, then tells me his buddy has same vehicle, and wants the same, charge it to this credit card number and name, the last name was the same as our owners last name, everything was to be fed-ex, next day, and or same day, I got off the phone with him, called our owner, at 230am, a servant answered, I demanded he be woke up, the owner told me, if he didn't think what I had to say was important, I was going to be shitcanned, so I explained what was going on, the cc was tied to his account, he said I was correct to call him, and the order was a GO, he then called ware house managers, to go to work early, to ship his son;s parts, asap, his son had a auto show, and needed the stuff.....12.50 hour fucking job

Years ago I was on craigslist looking at cars and found a red 90's supra for $10k. It had a ton of pics, the guy emailed me copies of all the documentation, and wrote well written emails. I then noticed those exact same pics and car on another car selling website but with a slightly different description and price. I emailed back the guy to warn him that I think someone stole his pics from craigslist and was trying to pretend to sell his car. He skirted the email and just continued asking if I wanted more documentation about the car. That's when I realized this might be a scam. I then mentioned to him that (at the time) my dad was an active special agent for the department of justice, I ran this by him, and he said it looks like a scam. The seller then completely changed his tune and wrote me an email to the affect of "oh so you're going to run to your daddy over a car?". At that point I just responded that I don't need to since his last response in a documented and traceable email was a good enough indicator of guilt to pass on to my dad's office. A few days later I noticed all the websites that car was posted for sale on had been taken down. Hopefully it saved someone from getting scammed.

3 of my favourite things in one video. Cars, scams and PAYBACK! I love this channel!

You guys need to get Rob back in here! I'd love to here more of his wheelin' and dealin' stories

🍺 cheers vinwiki keeping up the daily weekly videos now I have the best reason to watch when I’m on break or a heavy shift

It does bum me out that doug broke Ed's record. Dude is the car guy version of a ticket scalper. Glad to hear he got his one good time...

One of the dealers at the dealership I used to work at, did a trade for a couple year-old EVO X that someone brought in, and the dealer didn't let any of the mechanics check it out first, and he didn't even take it to the Mitsubishi dealership to be checked either (we were a Ford dealership) and the guy wanted a trade-in for a brand new 2013 Mustang GT. After the guy left with his new mustang, the dealer finally decided to let the mechanics check it out, and as soon as we started it we knew the engine was blown. Turns out, the guy blew his engine and Mitsubishi wouldn't cover it because he told them it happened at the track (idiot) so he brought it to the Ford dealership to try and scam us. And it worked. The engine was going to cost like $20k to get a new one and have it installed, so the dealer just ended up selling the car back to Mitsubishi. The guy basically traded in a $10k car for a $35k car and got away with it. Still blows my mind that a dealer wouldn't know what a blown engine sounds like.

I wanna buy a car , but I'll pay u when I get the money 🤣😂🤣😂

Golf ruins a nice day on the golf course....! Great stories.. thanks

What idiot dealership lets a $200,000 vehicle drive off the lot before the check clears? They got what they deserved!

Similar to your FedEx story about the Lotus SV, I had a guy use a UPS account of a real company (stolen of course), sent a legitimate check from a real business in WI. I wonder now if it was the same company. I contacted the FBI as well. No help whatsoever. They never contacted me back. I knew it was fake right off and didn't do anything with it, but still....

Had no idea all these particular exams existed. I've not been burned only because I haven''t been in the market for these types of cars. The most interesting scam/non-scams I've seen is that when a new hot car is out for the first time. The dealer markup starts to happen. Relevant because I'm trying to figure out what to do regarding the C8, since my closest dealer already has informed me prior to telling me the price that he's going to require and over-sticker sales price. The C8. I've also seen the videos in which those who are knowledgeable are saying that Chevrolet wants the cars sold for sticker, but of course cannot control what the independent dealers decide to do. In some sense, the market causes people to scam themselves by telling themselves they want these cars and are willing to pay the "premium." Last comment is look what happened with the rather scarce Porsche 911R's for a while. People got the cars somehow and two or three internet sales of the new car for a price of over a million dollars. The explanations justifying not only the practice, but the fact that cars moved for this money were the sort of justifications people always make, in particular, rarity; it won't go down because this is the last car like this, etc. Of course as time went on a large number of offerings of attractive cars became available and some of the money that might have purchased the 911R was instead going elsewhere. In the end, buying and selling or flipping is extremely tricky, perhaps very much in the way that flipping certain Rolex's is or are a tircky proposition.

The one where he messed with the scammer was the funniest

Over here (Netherlands) it happens, but rarely. First of all, we don't deal with cheques. Car business is cash or bank transfers where and exchange of registration papers have to be done in an official way. What happens is that pro car thieves steal your car where it will end up in the eastern part of Europe, getting other registration docs and will, later on, be sold through auction houses.

Finally a video where Ed doesn't talk!!! I'll give it the first thumbs up of your series.

What about the scam where I was buying my Miata and there was no blinker fluid and I broke down on the highway 😭💀😡

Great interview as always but that Butler Tire as at the end was 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥!!!

These stories are great and the best collection of car stories ever.

A friend of a friend came up to me drunk and wanted to borrow 5 euros and pay it back tomorrow to buy beer. The next day I confronted that person and he refused to pay, saying he can not remember ever borrowing money from me. Since then I distrust people who want my money without backups.

Just found this channel but i appreciate the uploads!

I was walking by Algar Ferrari right as he mentioned it.. weird

Who’s letting cars out of their sight with an uncleared check?!

On the news here in Raleigh NC there was a guy passing bad checks from the law firm of Dewy, Cheatem and Howe. I heard this and had to wonder, haven't these people ever watched the three stooges. That was their law firm. I sell locally on craigslist and I have people all the time wanting me to take the money orders and cashiers checks and I take cash only in person, no I do not ship to anyone except my friends. The interesting thing I found was, so many of them claim they are in the Marines, on deployment and want it sent to they nephew who always lives in NJ. One guy finally caught on that I wasn't ever going to fall for this when he asked, so how much should I send you and I told him to send me $500 by western union and I will think about doing it.

Not sure if it’s just me but the camera quality looks really nice recently!

Sold the same car a few times. There has got to be I sold this same car X times record story out there somewhere.

I sell RVs and have dealt with many scams like this. Just as bad are the customers who try to underhandedly use scam Craigslist ads, they know are scam ads, with a year old motorhome for 50% retail value in order to negotiate an unrealistic sales price. Never met a salesman who fell for it, and while it is annoying to sink time into a deadbeat, I’d be lying if I said I didn’t enjoy playing games with unrealistic people.

I personally know the manager of a local Porsche dealer. She told me they sell most of their cars to clients that have them shipped w/out ever seeing them in person. Ive wrote checks for new cars & always had to wait at least a couple of weeks to get the title from the dealer.

I'm pretty sure that the first guy Doug mentioned is Rabbit.

I almost fell for a scame like the first one on a classic chevy. They said the car was stored in Bremerton WA on a military holding facility while they were deployed (the army does do that). Long story short they said put the money in an Amazon escrow account until it was delivered. I agreed but my red flag went up when they said they would send me a link. I emailed Amazon and they were clear that they DO NOT DO ESCROWS! I told the seller I already had an Amazon account that we could use. I never heard from them again. I even made a video about it. If it is OK with you I will put the link in the reply section below.

"[...] What can you do for me?" "Tell you you're an idiot?"

That last part.... would have been a crazy twist...

Thanks for giving me tips. now I can start my own scamming operation Kapp

GOMotors... I've stumbled on many "too good to be true" Porsche deals ads from those guys some weeks ago - This was too obvious, great cars for almost nothing... :-/

I really don't think the FBI gives a shit about that guy getting scammed

Doug has obviously seen the movie "The Sting" (fake cop.) Scam #6 - the soldier overseas fighting terrorists. At one time I was looking at Miatas and found a nice one. Woman was very nice, but the car was in her husband's name and he was in Iraq and he had the title, but she could get it in a week or two. Could I give her a check (for the full price) to hold the car? Nope.

I love these stories. Glad I found this channel!

They took that f50 to the car show in Lexington it was so cool

2:40 “... and that’s when I realized I was buying from Robert Pitts.”

I almost got scammed by a seller on marketplace. $225 for a 99 maxima. Was trying to say they were a marine stationed in Germany and was selling the car due to it going to sit for years. I contacted my buddy to check out the car and it was not there. The car was real but was wrecked and totaled and in no way functional like the ad had said.

That intro, if I didn't know any better I'd think he was talking about Hoovie

I went to school with the Ohio Guy (Ray). Funny he was trying to do the same bit with a dealership in Greenwich CT.

I hate flippers and Doug from Switch Cars was flipping Porsches buying them at sticker and selling for $50,000 over, not illegal but a scumbag move none the less. I used to be in the Wholesale Car business and it was near impossible to find an honest one out of a 1000.

Happens to folks in common cars also. Got arrested for being in a stolen car with a friend who did actually buy the car. He forked over the 1500 for the car being promised the pink slip as soon as the "deceased" owners property went though probate. He had the car almost a month before we got stopped. My case was dismissed.

Freddie needs his mustache back

hey thanks for the tutorial. I'll be making money in no time.