For some reason, car dealers and Carvana in particular keep selling stolen cars to unsuspecting customers. It’s happened yet again, this time to a man in Svannah, Georgia who had his red C7 Corvette taken away by police.
A Florida car dealer has apologized to angry customers.
The guy took to TikTok to tell his story and warn others, his video going viral and getting picked up by different news outlets. Quite a few people still don’t know this happens and that they’re taking a risk when buying a used vehicle from certainly dealers.
At least in this case the car was taken just hours after the transaction was completed with Carvana. The guy wasn’t making payments for months and months on end, something that’s happened to others and probably will happen again.
Still, to have police show up and load your new sports car onto a wrecker has to be difficult to watch. With all the social media attention on the case, Carvana is trying to save face by offering to help the victim in this case find a new Corvette quickly. Had his TikTok not gone viral, we wonder what response he would’ve received.
Like in other cases of Carvana selling stolen cars to customers, the company said the situation was the result of a sophisticated fraud. Since a police investigation is ongoing, we don’t know exactly how the thieves covered their tracks.
But in the past, Carvana and other dealers have failed to catch rather simple vehicle cloning schemes. Instead of checking the VIN tags on engines, frames, etc. they apparently only look at the driver’s door jamb and dashboard tags, ones which fraudsters swap out to throw people off.
We recommend looking up where all the VINs are located on a car and checking them out yourself, either before buying a car or shortly after completing the transaction. It’s sad that such a thing is necessary these days, but this just keeps happening and some dealers apparently can’t be bothered to do it themselves.
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