[Resolved] Olx India — lost 181000 in car deal on olx.in

jotibabuwa

from Pune, Maharashtra

Address:

Belgaum, Karnataka, 590005

Hi,
I contacted anand babu for buying swift dzire car. We had discussion on car then we finally dealed that car for 1, 20, 000. I asked anand babu to see car he said he will courier car to me for that i need to pay 10, 000 as courier charges. Considering that i paid him 10, 000. Then he send me the courier details on the name of army transport and his personal details like aadhar card.. Driving license and vehicle rc book and he is working in army and his posting is changed to jammu and he need to report on urgent basis. He has done all formalities of sending car to me and i need to pay the courier person when he deliever the car to me.
Next day i received the call from courier person. He said he is very near to me and to deliver the car i need to pay courier security charges before delivery so i paid 26400 for the courier. Then he said i need to pay half amount of total deal then i paid 50000. Then again he said my bill is not uploading sobi need to pay all the deal amount then again i paid 40000 to courier person up to now i was confirming with car owner before transferring the money to courier person. Then he again called me and said your 26400 transaction is not corrent so you need to pay 26000 first then 400 seperately.. Like wiase again i paid.. This scenario continues till i paid him almost 181000 rupees. For paying this amount i took gold loan from bank by keeping my mothers and wifes gold as security.
Then he again asked for 530000 from me as our last transacton was miss placed and if i dont pay car and money both will be seized by army and there will no chance of returning back. Now i dont have money with me and i dont know what to do now. I was crying now. Then i contacted police station then they said its completely fake and i should not have transferred this much amount of money without actual delivery.
Police contacted that person but he start abusing on phone.
Poolice said tracking is not simple now a day. You need wait for our senior officer he will come and will take decision. Nothing happened after that.
I am requesting here in consumer court to take some strong action on this and try to find those scammers and recover my money from them.

Car owner contact no.
Anand babu. Switched off
[protected]
[protected]
Courier person contact no.
[protected] active.. But not receiving calls

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Mar 31, 2019

Complaint marked as Resolved

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Feb 28, 2019

OLX India Customer Care's response Dear OLX user,

Greetings from team OLX!

We have now escalated this from here. The team will take appropriate action on this at the earliest.

We also request you to take the help of Legal Authorities and file an FIR for the same.

In the event it is required by the police or other legal authorities, OLX will provide the access records (IP, email, and date and time of posting) of the user who posted the ad to the appropriate legal agent.

For any information, the Police can reach out to us on [protected]@olx.in.

Further, we would suggest you not to make any Advance Payment now onwards.

Feel free to write back to us, in case you need any further assistance.

If you wish to have a word with us, please call our customer care number at[protected]:00 am to 07:00 pm) available seven days a week.

Thanks,
Team OLX