Car Data Finance telephone call?

I've just had a phone call from a company called (something) Car Data saying that they need to take the reg of my car, as they have someone wanting to buy it. Apparently these people want to purchase it via finance and this company need to do a HPI check.





To be honest this sounds really dodgy, i asked the guy to call me back at 5.





has anyone else had something similar?|||It's sensible to do an HPI check before buying a car, but doing it this way around sounds odd. Why the h*ll would someone want to check it before they've even seen it, and. more to the point, why would anyone try to arrange finance on something they've not seen?





I've got my doubts too. I wouldn't disclose any information, your car may well be about to be cloned.|||Is the car for sale? If not it's a scam. If it is it's a scam (because the person buying will already know the number)











.|||have you got an ad in the local paper saying your selling it then? Sounds dodgy to me who's to say they aint going to put your registration on an Identical car. You could dial 1471 and you might get their phone number and if you do put in the the search browsers and see what comes back.|||if you are trying to sell youre car in a weekly.its common for them to phone you.just tell them you are not interested.they will buy youre car for less than its worth.stick to selling it privately.if you give them youre reg youll be on the phone all the time with them.dont give them any info about the car.sell it as you planned to.|||BE CAREFUL! There is a loophole in the law that is something along the lines of if you present a claim to the DVLA that you are now the legal owner of a vehicle, the DVLA will write to whoever is showing up as the current owner, but if they receive no reply in a certain length of time, they will sign the car over to the enquirer and the car becomes legally theirs. At least, I remember reading that, but it may have been tightened up now. My point is, don't give your reg number out (and well done for masking it) to anyone unless you've sold them the car and you have the money. If this loophole is still there, the DVLA may well write to you, but you know what the postal service is like in the UK, and your car may then not be your own! Does that make sense? I hope so!