[DeTomaso] Someone is scamming people with my name AND my car!

Thu Aug 3 17:27:52 EDT 2017

Unfortunately it is rife throughout the internet and getting worse as social media grows. Just this morning I got a LinkedIn invitation from a Chuck Melton, but it said he worked at Slickpaint (Bill Gaino's shop), these people are piecing together information from the web and trying to get in to extract your information to be the next victim. I scrutinize every email 'from' field to ensure it is who it is portrayed to be, these scam artists have all the artwork and logos down.

Anyone can snap a photo of a car, license plate and VIN tag and then advertise that vehicle online. It seems often nowadays people are far more comfortable conversing via email, Twitter, Messenger etc. than picking up a phone and talking to a human being, it just lends itself to these sort of scams. Then some people are gullible too, thinking they have a deal of the century.

Craigslist is a scam artists nirvana, I won't touch anything that doesn't have a phone number listed in the ad. That said it would probably be good to do an all states search on De Tomaso or Pantera say weekly and post to the list. We are a small community and most are aware where certain cars reside, owners and whether actually for sale and if it prevents someone getting scammed it's a good day for a future Pantera owner.

Julian
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From: DeTomaso <detomaso-bounces at server.detomasolist.com> on behalf of Himes, Terry (397C) <terry.himes at jpl.nasa.gov>
Sent: Thursday, August 3, 2017 1:31 PM
To: Mark Nygaard; detomaso at server.detomasolist.com
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Someone is scamming people with my name AND my car!

Mark,

Thanks for sharing that.  And because I consider us a family I will also pile-on and let everyone know that
there is a huge number of scams for vacation rental homes also.  Every week in my complex there are people
to travel from all over the country with their families, only to find they have been scammed.  One couple last
week flew in from England.  Nothing the cops can do about it, except write a report.

Very sad.

Terry

"A Purple Heart proves you were smart enough to hatch a plan,
 stupid enough to try it and lucky enough to survive!"

Terry W. Himes
JPL Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Dawn Spacecraft Team
Rosetta Sequence Team Lead
Phone: (818) 393-6261
Cell:     (818) 653-8213
thimes at jpl.nasa.gov
🇺🇸

On 8/3/17, 1:27 PM, "DeTomaso on behalf of Mark Nygaard" <detomaso-bounces at server.detomasolist.com on behalf of markn at nyga.net> wrote:

    Pantera folks:

    I don't post very often to this forum or even read it as much as a I used to, but I wanted to take the time to share a story with all of you that happened to me today.

    I was sitting at home when a police officer from the city I live in came to the door and asked if I owned a 1973 DeTomaso Pantera. I responded yes. He then read off the VIN and the license plate number to me.  I told him that is my car.  He then asked if I still had the car and I responded yes I do.

    The police officer then told me that someone "bought" my car off of an auction web site and discovered it was a scam.  He stated that a Florida Highway Patrol officer had contacted them to make sure the car was not stolen. That is why they came to my house.  I asked if there was anything I should/could do and he stated, "No, not really but this may not be the last time this happens".  I don't know what to do about it either but I thought I would at least share this story with all of you to be mindful of people getting a hold of sensitive information and fraudulent people pulling scams.

    The officer also suggested I share this with any car clubs that I am associated with, so other people could be on the lookout for other cars that should not be for sale. I feel terrible for the person that got scammed.  Please be on the lookout for such things.  At the end of the day nothing bad happened to me with the possible exception that I may get more visits like this.

    Best regards,

    Mark

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   Unfortunately it is rife throughout the internet and getting worse as
   social media grows. Just this morning I got a LinkedIn invitation from
   a Chuck Melton, but it said he worked at Slickpaint (Bill Gaino's
   shop), these people are piecing together information from the web
   and trying to get in to extract your information to be the next
   victim. I scrutinize every email 'from' field to ensure it is who it is
   portrayed to be, these scam artists have all the artwork and logos
   down.

   Anyone can snap a photo of a car, license plate and VIN tag and then
   advertise that vehicle online. It seems often nowadays people are far
   more comfortable conversing via email, Twitter, Messenger etc. than
   picking up a phone and talking to a human being, it just lends itself
   to these sort of scams. Then some people are gullible too, thinking
   they have a deal of the century.

   Craigslist is a scam artists nirvana, I won't touch anything that
   doesn't have a phone number listed in the ad. That said it would
   probably be good to do an all states search on De Tomaso or
   Pantera say weekly and post to the list. We are a small community and
   most are aware where certain cars reside, owners and whether actually
   for sale and if it prevents someone getting scammed it's a good day for
   a future Pantera owner.
   Julian
     __________________________________________________________________

   From: DeTomaso <detomaso-bounces at server.detomasolist.com> on behalf of
   Himes, Terry (397C) <terry.himes at jpl.nasa.gov>
   Sent: Thursday, August 3, 2017 1:31 PM
   To: Mark Nygaard; detomaso at server.detomasolist.com
   Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Someone is scamming people with my name AND my
   car!

   Mark,
   Thanks for sharing that.  And because I consider us a family I will
   also pile-on and let everyone know that
   there is a huge number of scams for vacation rental homes also.  Every
   week in my complex there are people
   to travel from all over the country with their families, only to find
   they have been scammed.  One couple last
   week flew in from England.  Nothing the cops can do about it, except
   write a report.
   Very sad.
   Terry
   "A Purple Heart proves you were smart enough to hatch a plan,
    stupid enough to try it and lucky enough to survive!"

   Terry W. Himes
   JPL Jet Propulsion Laboratory
   Dawn Spacecraft Team
   Rosetta Sequence Team Lead
   Phone: (818) 393-6261
   Cell:     (818) 653-8213
   thimes at jpl.nasa.gov

   On 8/3/17, 1:27 PM, "DeTomaso on behalf of Mark Nygaard"
   <detomaso-bounces at server.detomasolist.com on behalf of markn at nyga.net>
   wrote:
       Pantera folks:

       I don't post very often to this forum or even read it as much as a
   I used to, but I wanted to take the time to share a story with all of
   you that happened to me today.

       I was sitting at home when a police officer from the city I live in
   came to the door and asked if I owned a 1973 DeTomaso Pantera. I
   responded yes. He then read off the VIN and the license plate number to
   me.  I told him that is my car.  He then asked if I still had the car
   and I responded yes I do.

       The police officer then told me that someone "bought" my car off of
   an auction web site and discovered it was a scam.  He stated that a
   Florida Highway Patrol officer had contacted them to make sure the car
   was not stolen. That is why they came to my house.  I asked if there
   was anything I should/could do and he stated, "No, not really but this
   may not be the last time this happens".  I don't know what to do about
   it either but I thought I would at least share this story with all of
   you to be mindful of people getting a hold of sensitive information and
   fraudulent people pulling scams.

       The officer also suggested I share this with any car clubs that I
   am associated with, so other people could be on the lookout for other
   cars that should not be for sale. I feel terrible for the person that
   got scammed.  Please be on the lookout for such things.  At the end of
   the day nothing bad happened to me with the possible exception that I
   may get more visits like this.

       Best regards,

       Mark

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