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MCLEAN, Va. (WJLA) – Car repair tricksters appear in parking areas or even your own particular carport guaranteeing they can settle the dings and paint scratches on your auto at little cost. Yet in the event that you let down your gatekeeper, you could wind up with significantly more harm and a vacant wallet.
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Matt Mccollum and his harmed Infiniti. (WJLA photograph)
At a separation, Matt Mccollum's Infiniti looks impeccable, however get a little closer and the harm is evident.
"There's simply scratches and dings everywhere throughout the auto," Mccollum said.
The harm on Mccollum's auto is more regrettable than it was the point at which he purchased it.
"He spread painted here and its all sticky, and its simply a huge, awful wreckage there now," he said.
Mccollum's auto is currently a patchwork of sanded scratches, messy fixes and jumbled paint; its work deserted by an alleged portable auto repairman he found on Craigslist.
"He goes, 'Leave everything, don't touch anything, hold up three or four days, go to the auto wash, and after that everything will be impeccable, amigo,'" Mccollum said.
Not exactly; Mccollum is currently out more than $400 in what specialists call an exemplary trick.
"These individuals are smooth," said Eric Friedman, with the Montgomery County Office of Consumer Protection. "Remember, in the event that they were not persuading, they'd need to land a true position like whatever remains of us."
Why would they need to, when Friedman says auto repair con artists can take many dollars and vanish?
"These fellows will do loathsome work, they're unlicensed, trashy work, wrong materials," he said. "They'll likely cause more issues. They'll take the cash and run."
Getting these law breakers is almost unthinkable, on the grounds that the con artists continually switch their promotions on Craigslist, utilizing distinctive names and telephone numbers. They additionally won't provide for you much data when you reach them in individual.
7 On Your Side took our shrouded cam to perceive how these organizations function, calling one man whose promotion we found on the web. In simply a 60-second sweep, he decided he could alter all our scratches for $400.
"I could fill it with a first stage, put a pleasant cover of paint on there and make it look truly decent," he let us know.
Anyhow when he couldn't give a business card, driver's permit or business permit, so we'd know he was real, we quit. Friedman says numerous buyers don't.
"On the off chance that somebody simply drives up to you, they're gonna head out and you're never gonna discover them again," Friedman said.
Frequently, Friedman's office does; it helped bust two men—versatile repairmen who approached a 89-year-old man in a shopping plaza, charging $500 for messy repairs that cost significantly more to alter.
"A great deal of times, shoppers will say, 'Yet I thought I could believe the gentleman,'" Friedman said. "Actually, they trust that you get that impression and they're great at doing that … that is the reason they're called con artists."
Mccollum didn't get his con artist, however he trusts his pricey lesson can be a cautioning for another person.
Read more: http://www.wjla.com/articles/2014/10/7-on-your-side-be careful with craigslist-auto repair-con artists 108471.html#ixzz3hq9vni1n
Tail us: @abc7news on Twitter | WJLATV on Fa
Keep perusing
Matt Mccollum and his harmed Infiniti. (WJLA photograph)
At a separation, Matt Mccollum's Infiniti looks impeccable, however get a little closer and the harm is evident.
"There's simply scratches and dings everywhere throughout the auto," Mccollum said.
The harm on Mccollum's auto is more regrettable than it was the point at which he purchased it.
"He spread painted here and its all sticky, and its simply a huge, awful wreckage there now," he said.
Mccollum's auto is currently a patchwork of sanded scratches, messy fixes and jumbled paint; its work deserted by an alleged portable auto repairman he found on Craigslist.
"He goes, 'Leave everything, don't touch anything, hold up three or four days, go to the auto wash, and after that everything will be impeccable, amigo,'" Mccollum said.
Not exactly; Mccollum is currently out more than $400 in what specialists call an exemplary trick.
"These individuals are smooth," said Eric Friedman, with the Montgomery County Office of Consumer Protection. "Remember, in the event that they were not persuading, they'd need to land a true position like whatever remains of us."
Why would they need to, when Friedman says auto repair con artists can take many dollars and vanish?
"These fellows will do loathsome work, they're unlicensed, trashy work, wrong materials," he said. "They'll likely cause more issues. They'll take the cash and run."
Getting these law breakers is almost unthinkable, on the grounds that the con artists continually switch their promotions on Craigslist, utilizing distinctive names and telephone numbers. They additionally won't provide for you much data when you reach them in individual.
7 On Your Side took our shrouded cam to perceive how these organizations function, calling one man whose promotion we found on the web. In simply a 60-second sweep, he decided he could alter all our scratches for $400.
"I could fill it with a first stage, put a pleasant cover of paint on there and make it look truly decent," he let us know.
Anyhow when he couldn't give a business card, driver's permit or business permit, so we'd know he was real, we quit. Friedman says numerous buyers don't.
"On the off chance that somebody simply drives up to you, they're gonna head out and you're never gonna discover them again," Friedman said.
Frequently, Friedman's office does; it helped bust two men—versatile repairmen who approached a 89-year-old man in a shopping plaza, charging $500 for messy repairs that cost significantly more to alter.
"A great deal of times, shoppers will say, 'Yet I thought I could believe the gentleman,'" Friedman said. "Actually, they trust that you get that impression and they're great at doing that … that is the reason they're called con artists."
Mccollum didn't get his con artist, however he trusts his pricey lesson can be a cautioning for another person.
Read more: http://www.wjla.com/articles/2014/10/7-on-your-side-be careful with craigslist-auto repair-con artists 108471.html#ixzz3hq9vni1n
Tail us: @abc7news on Twitter | WJLATV on Fa
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