Fraud - Bait And Switch

In this article we're going to cover one of the mostthat normally sells for about $21,000 on sale for an
common types of fraud and unfortunately theinsane price of $17,000. As your eyes are bugging
easiest one to get away with.How many times hasout of your head you grab the paper so you can
this happened to you? You see an ad in the papershow the exact car you want to the sales person
for something that's on sale for a ridiculously lowand rush out of the house like a bat out of hell. Then
price. You rush down to the store to get this itemyou get to the dealership, and most likely because of
before it's gone and sure enough when you getthe ad the place is packed and you're waiting an hour
there, no matter how early it is, the item is gone.for someone to even wait on you, and then finally
And then after you find this out the salespersonwhen you do get a hold of the sales person he
says to you something like, "But we have one justregrets to inform you that the car has already been
as good over here." Turns out the item is 4 timessold. Your jaw sinks to the floor but before you can
the cost and not as good. You're angry enough toturn to leave the sales person points to a model that
strangle someone. But ultimately you end up gettingis very similar to the car you wanted. He tells you
the other item because you don't want the trip to beabout all the wonderful features and then you notice
a total waste. This is known as the bait and switchthe price tag is about $20,000. While it's less than
and is one of the most common types of fraud.Thewhat the model normally goes for it's still nowhere
reason it is fraud is because the item in the paperclose to what you were hoping to pay. But, because
never really existed. Oh, have a great time trying toyou don't want the trip to be a total waste, you buy
prove that, because in most cases you can't, but it'sthe car. The bait and switch worked like it does so
fraud just the same. And it goes on everyday. Themany times.There isn't really a lot you can do about
truth is, most of those too good to be true dealsthis. You can report it but most likely the dealership
that you see in the paper are most likely going towill have documents to prove that the original car in
turn out to be bait and switch items.Probably thethe ad was sold. Your best prevention of this type
most common practitioners of this are carof fraud is just to be on the look out for it. If you
dealerships. Open up the paper and the ads are assee an ad in the newspaper that appears too good
large a whole page at times. And then you'll see a carto be true then most likely it is.