A Car Salesman In Michigan Was Just Caught In One Of The Most Elaborate Scams

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In his grift, Perez would still pose as a salesperson from Dick Scott Jeep and offer customers what’s known as a lease pull ahead. Those are deals that get customers out of their current leases early and into a newer vehicle. What’s worse, the Covid pandemic played right into his game. From Fox 2:

Instead of meeting at the dealership – he used being Covid safe to his advantage, meeting customers in parking lots to make the exchange.

Of course, Perez wouldn’t actually return the car to the dealer. The person’s car would end up in his endless circle of theft: He’d either resell the vehicle or sell the person a car he stole from someone else by doing the same lease return scam.

He didn’t stop there, though. A person like this never does. It gets better. He’d actually go to dealers and fraudulently sign paperwork in their names so they’d get screwed on their “payments”:

He would actually go to dealerships and get vehicles but put them in their names and sign all the paperwork, sign their names,” Watters said.

Then, he’d tell them – their payments are less than the actual dealership was charging.

Perez would tell these people that their first three payments would be waived, so by the time the finance company contacted the customer for payment, they’d already be three months late. This would significantly impact their credit. These late notices are what sent people to contact local police. Perez has now been charged at multiple police stations in the Detroit area. And local authorities are left to clean up the mess he’s left behind.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/news/a-car-salesman-in-michigan-was-just-caught-in-one-of-the-most-elaborate-scams-you-ll-probably-ever-see/ar-AAUWCYL

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1. There are at least 30 victims