RTS Vehicle Sales & Finance / "Tim" big fraud

[Trevlieb]

Good Day. I recently paid a R10,000 for a deposit on a vehicle through a company claiming to offer private vehicle finance. RTS Vehicle Sales & Finance. A guy by the name of Tim Van Schalkwyk gave me a Capitec account no on a company tax letter head with a vat no the works via a email rtsadmin1@webmail.co.za & rtsvehiclesales@webmail.co.za and i paid the money in. The vehicle was at a dealer that confirmed once they invoice RTS and gets paid i can take delivery. When i approached the dealer again to take delivery of the vehicle he knew of nothing. Expecting something is seriously wrong i went back to Capitec where i was advised that the full amount have been withdrawn. The owner of the bank account now claims that he gave his card with his pin details to this Tim as part of a job application. What can i do now?

[Bradup]

Do the obvious....Go to the police and lay a charge. This is fraud.

[Ashes145]

I almost fell for the same thing!

Tim seemed very legitimate. I went to the dealership, test drove the car and was about to pay R13 000.00 into an ABSA account.

When I found out the account in question only had a balance of R50.00 the alarm bells went off. I contacted the dealership and they told me they'd never heard of Tim before.

When I confronted Tim, he gave me excuse after excuse. He even sent me an email confirming the "cancellation" of the sale.

I've reported the bank account to ABSA. Tim's telephone number: 0744447877 goes directly over to voicemail.

[Trevlieb]

Yes this guy is a absalute fraud ,thief and will have to pay for his sins before the almighty one day , hopefully sooner than later , he also gave me not one but 4 cell no : 0768772331 , 0745196089 , 0744447877 & 0747908289.