Buyer Beware, Your VIN Is in for a Scare

Saved you a click:

* There's a couple websites that pretend to lookup a vehicle's history, but they're just scams. You will be encouraged to use them by emails that are obviously scams.

* Article links to products the author is trying to sell; this is an ad.

* Your VIN is not in for a scare.

That the author writes for a company that sells products (tools for analyzing dns and web shenanigans) doesn't make the post an'ad' does it? What struck me in particular was that if it's this easy (granted, using custom tools) to track these kinds of activities, why doesn't Google do it for us and block these (long list of related) domains from search results?

Seems like a pretty clickbait title.

My VIN is hiding under the bed currently.

"However, when I traded a motorcycle helmet for a stroller and bottle warmer"...

sounds like a bad trade to me..

So question then is, what's the scam?

Stealing card info? Selling the VINs to people trying to sell stolen vehicles? Or just producing fake CarProof-style reports for cheap.

Getting $20 for a bogus check on the vehicle history.