The Post and Courier reports that employees at two Charleston car dealerships schemed low-income buyers into buying vehicles they could not afford.
Read More →The operator of D&D Auto Sales, two employees and a state Motor Vehicle Commission technician were charged with acquiring fraudulent “clean” titles for eight flood-damaged vehicles and selling seven of them to customers.
Read More →An Ohio woman is accused of stealing $100,000 from her former employer, Voss Auto Network.
Read More →A Pennsylvania-based auto dealer was charged with providing financing without a license and selling a salvaged vehicle without performing a safety inspection or acquiring the correct title.
Read More →A Michigan dealer was arrested Dec. 3 after authorities checked several vehicles on his lot and discovered mileage discrepancies. Police said it appeared the dealer had installed used, low-mileage odometers in high-mileage cars.
Read More →At the FTC’s request, a Canadian telemarketer was ordered by the court to pay more than $5.1 million to victims of a car-buying scam committed on sites like eBay and Craigslist.
Read More →A Chicago car dealer allegedly schemed to have his uncle, who was a witness in a federal fraud case, killed. The dealer offered $10,000 to an undercover agent posing as a hit man, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.
Read More →The dealership will pay more than $86,000 to customers who were charged a bogus administrative fee when purchasing a used vehicle, in addition to $50,000 in penalties to the state.
Read More →The former operator of a West Texas dealership and two others are accused of devising a plan to approve loans for customers who did not meet a credit union’s lending standards. The credit union lost $3.9 million as a result of the scam.
Read More →Auto dealer Koroush Ghasemi of ABC Auto Sales in Denver is under investigation after more than 40 former clients claimed the dealer never sent them titles for their new vehicles.
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