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by 55555 3608 days ago
He almost definitely partly chose this niche so that he could respond to craigslist/classified ads of people selling their cars and say "I'm ready to pay [huge amount] in cash today but I need to see a vehicle history report from XYZ first."

For like a decade now, people have been posting fake job ads and then telling applicants to pay for their own "background check" in an identical scam.