Dent Man

Maurice –

Victim Location 92563

Total money lost $250

Type of a scam Other

A man approached me while I was parked at the out-put of a car wash with a proposal to fix a visible dent on the back left fender of my car. He had on a shirt that looked somewhat professional, and which had on it a business phone number. He introduced himself as a representative of this company, "Dent Man – Bodywork and Automotive Repairs," and offered to take on the dent and the surrounding headlight for a reasonable price. After following me to a residential parking lot near my home, he took out tools and I left him unattended while he worked on repairing the exterior dent. He did work on the car as a preliminary, and left, to return at a scheduled time the next day. The second day, after he had done the majority of the bodywork, he requested the payment for the bodywork and an advance for the tail light, which he would need to order. Payment for the actual bodywork repairs was done in cash ($500), though the check for the tail light ($250) was cashed without him returning to finish the work he was paid for. He has not returned phone calls or responded to the scheduled appointment times since taking off with the check.

Photo attached of the end results of his work – Orange flecking is a ceramic-based paste which he used to obscure the fact that the work beneath was shoddy. Washed off in water to reveal alterations to the paint job and non-completed bodywork, in addition to non completed headlight module replacement.

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