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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.
Often, a photo of the victim’s residence is attached to the message. The suspect sends instructions to make payment in Bitcoin to avoid "repercussions," troopers said in a news release.
Between October 1, 2022, and September 30, 2023, the National Center for Victims of Crime was awarded one $400,000 federal grant from the U.S. Department of Justice to develop a resource guide for National Crime Victims' Rights Week. [40] [41] It was also awarded a $852,294 grant from the District of Columbia to fund the DC Victim Hotline. [10]
A supposedly good actor waves the victim forward, but while the victim is changing lanes, that person deliberately smashes into the victim's car. [15] When police arrive, the bad actor denies having waved the victim forward, making the victim look careless and guilty. [16] The scheme is mostly employed where cars are merging, or in parking lots.
The victims included a 70-year-old, a 78-year-old and a 90-year-old. McClatchy News reached out to the attorney’s listed for the three defendants on Nov. 27 but did not immediately hear back.
"The cardboard that they hold also contains an image of a Cash App (for money transfers from your phone) that states it goes toward the child in the photo," the police say in a Facebook post.
Honest services fraud is a crime defined in 18 U.S.C. § 1346 (the federal mail and wire fraud statute), added by the United States Congress in 1988. [1] The idea of this law was to criminalize not only schemes to defraud victims of money and property, but also schemes to defraud victims of intangible rights such as the "honest services" of a public official.
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