Ducati Monster Gumtree
A man has collapsed victim to a betray that saw his Ducati motorbike, account $22,000, baseborn during a analysis drive.
["993.28"]Warren Harrison acquaint an advertisement on classifieds website Gumtree to advertise his 2015 Ducati 899 Panigale in August and met with a abeyant client called Steve Williams at his Glen Waverly home, east of Melbourne on Wednesday.
'He articulate so genuine, it absolutely suckered me in,' the 39-year-old man said in a address by Nine News.
Warren Harrison advertised his 2015 Ducati 899 Panigale on classifieds website Gumtree
["417.1"]Mr Harrison (pictured) said the abeyant buyer, called Steve Williams, 'sounded so genuine, it absolutely suckered me in'
The scammer, a adolescent macho who appeared of Indian ancestry and batten with an Australian accent, accustomed at his home in a baseborn Nissan Pajero to analysis drive the motorbike and told Mr Harrison he larboard his I.D at home.
After both parties active a abandonment form, Mr Harrison handed the keys over to Williams, who took it for a analysis drive.
Within 20 minutes, he accustomed a argument bulletin from bluff adage that he had been pulled over by the badge at a adjacent petrol base for dispatch and that he bare advice from him.
Mr Harrison collection out to the petrol station, but could not acquisition Williams or the police, he approved to alarm him aback but the buzz had been switched off.
["993.28"]CCTV footage from Mr Harrison's home shows the beach Nissan Pajero affairs up to the Glen Waverly home
'It was aloof a artifice to get me out of the abode so an abettor could appear and get the car and they could leave,' he said.
'The bulk of detail that has gone into this is amazing,' he said in a address by The Age.
Unfortunately, Mr Harrison's allowance aggregation won't accord him the pay out because they do not awning cartage 'stolen whilst actuality activated by a -to-be purchaser'.
["417.1"]He hopes his motorbike will be returned.
Mr Harrison's allowance aggregation pay him out because they do not awning cartage 'stolen whilst actuality activated by a -to-be purchaser'
'There's no use assault myself up about it. He articulate so genuine,' Mr Harrison added.
Police are attractive for a man of Indian appearance, age-old in his aboriginal twenties, 180 cm alpine and with abbreviate dreadlocks.
["620.8"]Anyone with advice is apprenticed to acquaintance Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.
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