The owner of the company - Lux Auto Import - Karim Belaidi contacted me through Autoscout24 with the following message:
Ce véhicule est-il encore disponible ? Bonjour nous somme une société de location de véhicule de prestige et de leasing et nous somme prêt à vois acheter l'aventador,pouvez vous nous livré ce véhicule,nous somme n°1 de la location de véhicule de prestige et de leasing,nos fournisseur sont Ferrari,Porsche,lamborghini,bentley et bien d autre,le payement ce fait par virement quand le véhicule arrive chez nous,car nous avons eu pas mal de surprise,cdt. LUX-AUTO-IMPORT 81.rue de luxembourg L-4391 PONTPIERRE tel / 00352 661 780 717
Translation:
Is this vehicle still available? Hello we are a car rental company prestige and leasing and we are ready to buy the adventador, can you deliver us this vehicle, we are number 1 of the rental of prestige vehicle and leasing, our supplier are Ferrari, Porsche, lamborghini, bentley and many others, the payment is made by transfer when the vehicle arrives at us, because we had a lot of surprise, cdt. LUX-AUTO-IMPORT 81. Luxembourg street L-4391 PONTPIERRE tel / 00352 661 780 717
He only speaks french. The text says that he´s asking if the car is still available and if it´s possible to deliver the car to his company.
I replied to him, that a delivery of the car is possible after we have done a purchase agreement.
I sent him a purchase contract for the car, he signed and stamped it. Furthermore he asked for the bank details to make the payment as soon as the car is delivered. I spoke to him many times before I delivered the car and told him that I´ll not hand over the car and paperwork before the money is on my bank account. He agreed on all the terms. He said, he´ll wait at his company with a mechanic to inspect the car, after the inspection he´ll do the payment.
We scheduled a delivery for the 15.11.2017 at 10:00AM in the morning. I arranged a transport company which brought the car from Germany to Pontpierre. He has a rented office there in a very bad area, it doesn´t look serious at all. He has no other cars over there, nothing. It´s a worthless company.
Arrived there he took a look on the car without a mechanic, he was alone. Then he handed over to the driver some forms which were filled up with the payment instructions for the payment to my bank account. I told him clearly again, that I´ll not hand over the car without having any money on my bank account, additional the bank form wasn´t stamped by the bank. He started to blame me that I have no trust and faith in him, he said, that he´s a straight business man and trustworthy. I told him clearly, it´s the first trade I´m doing with him and that I´ll not let the driver hand over the car to him without having any money on my bank account. I gave him the option to let me call his bank manager who should be able to give me a serious swift-payment proof. He got nervous and said that he´s driving to the bank and is organising that.
The driver was waiting there for another two hours, the car was always safely stored in the truck. Mr. Karim Belaidi arrived back finally with another proof of payment, this proof of payment was from a totally different bank then the first one, this time with a bank stamp. I told him again, that I´ll not hand over the car without having money in my bank account. He started to get angry and told me that he wants the car now because he already paid. He told me, I can take the papers of the car with me and can just leave the car there. I told him no, we have two options, I´ll call his bank by myself or my driver goes with him to his bank to get the approval that the money has left his account, both options he denied / not possible.
Now he got to know that he as no chance to rip off the car from me because he recognized that I´ll not hand over the car with his faked payment proof! He just left the place and never answered his phone anymore!
To everybody, please be careful with this guy, he´s trying to get your car just with a faked payment proof, the money will never be sent and you are looing your car. informed the banks where the proof of payments are from and going to report this scam to the police. I´m waiting for further action by them.
Stay Safe!