!!! PLEASE BE AWARE of fake adds of Leather Petri 38 steering wheels Ebay, Kleinanzeigen, etc. !!!

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Hello Gentlemens,

as Parts For Sale & Wanted is most popular add here on forum & topic is urgent i wrote this here...

Yesterday there was an add for leather Petri 38 here on forum (already removed by moderator) that used my photo slightly modified & my partial description; the leather Petri 38 photo was from my 2024 announcement.

Today @TomHom asked me if an add on German Kleinanzeigen, that used pretty same photo's is mine? It wasn't.

SO, PLEASE BE VERY CAREFUL about leather Petri 38 announcements anywhere!!!

The only way you can make sure, that the seller have the same product as on the photo's, is to ask him for additional photo's from different perspectives (maybe with current date plate but with the same background as before).

Forum members who dealed with me - know that the photo's aren't an issue & i always sent probably more photo's than anyone need.

So, if the seller don't want to make couple additional one's - it should be suspicious!


If you know of some fellow E9'ers who are in search for leather Petri - please let them know about this.


p.s. i already removed photo's of Petri's 38 from historical announcements here on forum i was able to find.

Thank you
Wladek
 
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Great job on catching that scam ad yesterday, both @Wladek and @Christopher in separate threads.
I understand the need to remove the threads but it could be very educational to show what's possible (fairly easy) with help of AI.

If it's okay, I'll post the original picture posted by @JohnP_02 in the "show your steering wheel" thread, and the scam picture modified with AI to pretend as beeing a new photo with username and current date written on a note.
I fell for it, I must say. This was the second thread after the one Wladek mentioned above.

The user might have been hacked, so until proven guilty and so on, but here are the pics only for educational purposes.
(asking for a note with date and name isn't bulletproof, either!)

Original pic:
Real Petri Pic.jpeg


Scam picture modified with AI:
Fake AI pic Petri.jpg
 
The asking price of $1400 alerted me in the first instance, being too good to be true for a CSL Petri. Asking for payment by Paypal F&F (where you won't get a refund if scammed) sealed it.

To verify my suspicion I did a reverse Google image lookup, and it threw up the thread where @JohnP_02 had included the image as his own steering wheel.

Simply save an image and then open it in Google images, if it has previously been loaded on the internet it will show in the searches there - scam defeated.
 
I too spotted the kleinanzeigen add and reported it yesterday.
It's the 5 th add I've reported, all of them tried to scam with Petri's for half or 2/3 rd of normal going rate.

The seller yesterday only had one add ever. BIG clue.

I too stopped buying expensive stuff online. When ever i need something special/expensive, I nowadays prefer driving over, even if it's 1000km. And have a nice chat for free.
 
Gransin said:
The user might have been hacked, so until proven guilty and so
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This is the case. The innocent member still may not know what happened if they don't visit the site. This is a reminder to ALWAYS USE A STRONG PASSWORD for your accounts. The email address and password were changed the day the ad was posted.

Dan
 
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