# Was this used car purchase a scam? How?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 27, 2022, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-this-used-car-purchase-a-scam-how/972335 "2022-09-27T18:51:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2022, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-this-used-car-purchase-a-scam-how/972335/89 "2022-10-04T15:53:50Z")

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> [@Schnitte](#):
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> It’s funny that within a few days I’ve been asked twice, in different threads, to contribute something about the role of notaries in civil law jurisdictions

And I think it is funny that I, within the same couple of days, have learned that such simple words as [government](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-would-the-nord-stream-pipelines-have-been-sabotaged/972320/103) and notary are not evident to translate at all, as you and @Cervaise have shown me. Thanks for that! (Says a professional interpreter, who will henceforth lose a couple of precious seconds thinking about what context to apply, European or American, when he hears those words again. It’s a hard life!)

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