Authorities are now looking into a supposed rent-a-car scam that has duped a number of individuals, including a TV host who needed to make extra money for her cancer treatment.
According to JP Soriano’s exclusive report on GMA’s “24 Oras Weekend” on Sunday, the scam involves pawning cars with the promise of monthly installment payments. Some of the victims were friends of the suspect, including a TV host-comedienne with stage 2 cancer identified as “Sett.”
Because she needed the money for her treatment, Sett agreed to a friend’s offer to involve her in a “rent-a-car” investment, in which Sett would give the suspect P150,000, with an expensive car as collateral.
The suspect claimed that Sett would profit from the arrangement and receive P30,000 a month in installments. The suspect also showed documents that they were the owner of the car.
Sett received the first P30,000 the next month. The next month, the suspect asked to borrow the car and said they would replace it with another.
This is when the suspect stopped paying installments, and has also not returned Sett’s P150,000. They could also not be reached.
“Alam ng taong ito may sakit ako pero nagmakaawa ako. Pati sa anak nila nagmakaawa na bayaran nila kasi magpapagamot ako. Hindi nila ako pinansin,” Sett said.
[This person knows that I am sick and I begged. I even begged their child to pay because I need to pay for my medications. They fell on deaf ears.]
Another victim identified as “Len” was taken for P330,000. He received some of the monthly installments, but some of the payments were delayed until the suspect could not longer be contacted.
It was found that the cars being pawned were also loaned out from other victims, and the documents being presented to the victims were fake.
According to Highway Patrol Group Chief PIO Police Lieutenant Colonel Christian Dela Cruz, it is possible that the scam involves syndicates.
“‘Yung nagparenta ng sasakyan tapos rerentahan ng sindikato, ‘yung sindikato naman pagka-renta, ipinasa sa iba or ibinenta or ipinarenta or sinangla,” he said.
[The car renter loans out the car to the syndicate, and then the syndicate would pass the vehicle to others by selling, renting it out, or pawning it,” he said. — Jon Viktor D. Cabuenas/BM, GMA News
Cancer-stricken TV performer victimized by rent-a-car scam
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