Man suspects odometer fraud after buying used car on Facebook

MOORESVILLE, N.C. (WBTV) – A Charlotte area man called WBTV for help after buying a car – only to find out later it had twice as many miles as advertised.“April 21, 2021, I inquired about a vehicle on Facebook Marketplace,” said Reid Atwood.Atwood found a jeep commander listed for $6,900 on Facebook. The listing indicated it was driven 86,000 miles.So Atwood exchanged messages with the seller and they set up a time to meet 2 days later.“So I met a young lady there and it ended up being a gas station was the address that he gave me,” Atwood said.Atwood took the car for a drive and everything seemed fine.He says the woman said she would go get the second key and the bill of sale.“Anyway, she left and never came back. And so I thought, well, that’s a little odd,” Atwood said.Atwood messaged the seller and they agreed on a time to pick up the items at the gas station but the items, he says, were never dropped off.“So I kind of thought something, maybe at that point in time, might not have been right and was a little suspicious,” Atwood said.He says he did his research and pulled…
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