No, not another Land Rover gloss. This is supposed to be about something where a Land Rover Defender was just a stumbling block, it could have been any other car. The advertisement in the classic car magazine stands out. Nicely done, the car looks good, the price is amazingly low. The fact that only one e-mail address is given is suspicious. But the price. So we write, even though the magazine is already three weeks old. Someone replies with a different email address. IN ENGLISH. Yes, the car is still there. The information, low mileage, fresh TÜV, are correct, the vehicle is in good shape. He also sends some pictures.

We want to know more. The next e-mail arrives: The Land Rover is in Ireland, but it has a German registration and was at the TÜV at the beginning of the year. The seller was a German engineer on an oil rig in the Irish Sea and could not take care of the processing. But shipping to Germany is already included in the price. All we need to do is transfer the money and the car will come to us in a few days. It's about 12,500 euros. Very old scam. The contact is broken off immediately, we suspect that the supposed owner would have been satisfied with a deposit for the transport. There are still people who fall for such things. Never send money to strangers without consideration and collateral. And you always have to look at a car beforehand. Whoever buys a pig in a poke has only themselves to blame, and in this case we are sure that the bag would have been empty as well.