BEWARE – TRACK & TRACE SCAMMERS

The people that encourage and carry out these scams are at the lowest point in their lives they could possibly be to even think of doing this. You cannot be a worse than these low life idiots and we are here to make sure that you know who they are and how to spot them. We cover much about this in our ‘Not in Your Name’ post, so I will refrain from repeating that as much as I can.

You have you motorcycle stolen, and the first thing you do is let the world know on your socials. What could be more obvious thing you could do to publicise your theft and ask people to keep an eye out for your bike? You are devastated, vulnerable and open to suggestion on how to get your bike back. These scammers will approach you with comments on posts.

‘Sorry to hear you had your bike stolen, I used a tracking service just click on this link’

‘I found my bike the same day through this tracking, he can find your bike’ and many, many more versions. they all ask you to click links to accounts on Instagram or Telegram that promise to track the location of your bike, even if it has no tracker fitted.

You will usually be asked to pay for the location when they claim they have located it – that can be somewhere vague usually, but you cannot prove they are making it up. Other times they use these links to harvest identity information, bank accounts and so on and will just feed you a story to enable them to do that. There have been many claims made and they are so many differing versions. But one thing they all have in common is the need for your details or bank account and you will get nothing in return but empty promises.

DON’T engage with them. We usually advise people to appeal through us and we block and report all comments made on your behalf. We supply forms of appeals that you can share with your socials that have no personal details relating to you on them. This protects you from these and others attacks we mention in the original ‘Not in Your Name’ article.