New Scam! Beware if you're selling horses online!

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A mate recently recieved a phone call about a horse she sold last year. She told them the horse was gone and they argued that they were looking at the advert on horsemart.

So we investigated.

Someone is posting adverts, with photos of my friend and her horse, on horsemart, with her phone number attatched!

She's had two removed and another one has appeared!

The photo and the body of the advert have been copied from her origional ad.

Be warned!
 
Upon googling the other phone number on the advert, it's associated with a variety of adverts ranging from a £500 welsh colt to a £12,000 showjumper!

All sold for a variety of different reasons, all found in different areas of the country, and all with different mobile/landline numbers!

It's almost certainly a nigerian scam hoping people call their number and not my friends!

the number also crops up on Horse and Hound adverts, Horse Quest adverts, and a small driving website's for sale section.

I'd recommend people who have sold horses on any of these websites in the last year to search for their own advert and ensure it hasn't been duplicated!

the mobile number is 07540 552524 - it has 10 pages of google results for horse adverts!

Horsemart are being difficult, telling my friend they won't delete the advert because she may not be the girl in the photo (erm, she is, it's on facebook, it's in her house, she had to scan it herself!) - but they have suspended it and told her to call the police!!!
 
Sorry, I forgot to mention that they have included their own mobile number.

That mobile number is on over 100 adverts for horses across a variety of horse for sale websites.

However, where they have copied the body of my friend's advert, Horsemart have included her phone number as well as the scammers number - and potential buyers are ringing her instead of the scammers!!!

She's been getting phone calls all day! Nice to know horse is so popular! Shame she's already sold it!
 
I've been looking at on-line ads recently and have found one free site which is absolutely full of obviously dodgy adverts. The same photos are used to advertise horses in both North Yorkshire and London, the same horse has very obviously been photoshopped onto different photo backgrounds. The people who have written the adverts have a very odd idea of English in some cases and in others seem to have no idea about horses or what people buying them want to know. What I can't understand is what they hope to gain, I haven't contacted any of them but do wonder how they can be making money from this but if there's no money to be made, why do they bother?
 
I don't get this it all!!!!
Unless you get charged a stupid amount to ring their number???? That's how they are making money??? Can't see what they have to gain as they haven't got the horse to sell so can only see it's to do with cost off phone call. I would be very carefull ringing them in case.
 
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