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3. Gift Card Scam. Another hallmark of many scams targeting used car buyers is a request for gift cards as payment. When the buyer calls the fake toll-free number, they’re told to purchase gift ...
FALL RIVER — An Attleboro man who owned a used car business in Swansea was arraigned Thursday on charges that he scammed nearly two dozen people out of more than $250,000 in multiple fraud schemes.
In the novel and 1996 film Matilda, Matilda's dad was a second hand car dealer who would use an electric drill to reverse the cable-driven odometer. Odometer fraud was depicted in the opening scene of the 1980 film Used Cars and by Danny DeVito's character.
The miracle cars scam was an advance-fee scam run from 1997 to 2002 by Californians James R. Nichols and Robert Gomez. In its run of just over four years, over 4,000 people bought 7,000 cars that did not exist, netting over US$ 21 million from the victims.
John M. McNamara (born 1940) [1] [2] is an American former businessman who was convicted of a Ponzi scheme fraud through gaining loans to a value of $6 billion from General Motors financing arm GMAC, to develop a $400M car sales and property development business.
Purchasing a new car is a pretty straightforward affair. Buying used, however, requires you to do much more legwork to make sure you're getting a good car and a good deal — and that you're not ...
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Ernest García II (born May 1, 1957) is an American billionaire businessman, in the used car sector. He is the owner of DriveTime (originally named UglyDuckling), and a major shareholder of Carvana. In 1990 he pled guilty to a felony bank fraud charge for his role in the Lincoln Savings and Loan Association collapse. As of January 2025, his net ...