All his life he had dreamed of this car: a powerful Dodge Challenger Hellcat SRT. But he had never been anywhere close to being able to buy it from her. Until one day he stumbled upon the opportunity he always wanted, and he couldn’t believe his luck. It is that he found an ad that sold that car so longed for and unattainable for him at a price he could afford. He was ecstatic. Finally he could make his dream come true.
And so Donovan Le from California in the United States took his life savings, about $26,000, and bought the Hellcat. He was in the clouds. And it was for more. He did it to his liking. He added SRT logos to it, changed the wheels, trunk and top, completely changing the overall look of the car. He fit her exactly how he liked it.
However, that immense joy was not going to last long. Before long she discovered the truth of that “bargain”. And he was devastated. The man he’d bought the car from didn’t actually own it, he’d leased it. That man had leased the car from the luxury car rental company DRIV3 and then fraudulently sold it to Le using a false title.
Maybe he should have realized something didn’t smell right. The 2022 Dodge Challenger Hellcat SRT that he bought for $26,000 is over $70,000. “I was so excited that it was at a price I could afford that I didn’t even notice it. I knew it though,” he said.
It was the same car rental company that located the car using a tracking system that was installed in the body. Thus he was able to recover it, but Le’s probe was left “without bread or cake.”
The deluded It turned out so badly that the company started a GoFundMe campaign for the victim of the scam in an effort to recover the money he lost. So far the collection has reached just over 5 thousand dollars.
“The Vehicle was stolen and fraudulently sold to Don Le without his knowledge. The scammer took $26,000 in cash from Don Le. By popular demand, let’s help him get his hard-earned money back,” the GoFundMe petition reads.
