Car Export Scam Unveiled

Car Export Scam Unveiled

Japanese Auto Industry,News —

Tags: bogus dealer, fraud, scam, tradecarview
The Aichi Prefectural Police and its International Investigation
Department in Nagoya city, has arrested Mr. Inoue (age 32), and three
others, on suspicion of fraud for false advertising of automobile sales
via overseas websites. Others arrested were Yoshihisa Yamatani, Company
Executive (47), Hidetoshi Yamashita, self employed (37) and Keiko
Miyazaki, part timer (36).

It is alleged that in early October 2009, they conspired to advertise
the sale of used cars on a website in English without actually owning
the vehicles, nor the intention of purchasing such vehicles. A 40 year
old male civil servant from Uganda was tricked into transferring the sum
of 330,000 Japanese Yen into their bank account.

The four people posted a website under the name of Dream Stock Trade
(DST) via the website portal Tradecarview in August, 2009. Over a 2
month period up to October, they displayed over 240 vehicles as DST
stock, despite not owning more than 10 vehicles under their own name,
and with no export trade experience. There were 70 complaints from 17
countries as a result of deals made through the DST website over
non-receipt of vehicles delivered, totaling about 22,000,000 Japanese Yen.

Furthermore, the prefecture police believe these four people arrested
are involved with another two companies using the same portal website,
other than DST, which have received over 40 complaints totaling
20,000,000 Japanese yen.

The above article was posted in the Chunichi Newspaper in Japan on May
19th, 2011. The original article appeared in Japanese as follows:

千代田５、無職井上大之容疑者（３２）ら４人を逮捕した。ほかに逮捕されたの
は、同市中区丸の内２、会社役員山谷良久（４７）、同県小牧市弥生 町、自営
業山下英利（３７）、名古屋市東区東桜２、アルバイト宮崎敬子（３６）の３容
疑者。

逮捕容疑では昨年１０月初め、実際は所有せず、入手する予定もない中古車を売
るとうその広告を英語でウェブサイトに掲載。東アフリカのウガンダの 男性公
務員（４０）に代金を銀行口座に送金させ、日本円で３３万円をだまし取ったと
される。

４人は昨年８月、ウェブサイト「トレードカービュー」に「ドリームストックト
レード（ＤＳＴ）」の業者名で加盟。１０月までの２カ月間に中古車 ２４０台
の広告を掲載したがどの車もＤＳＴ名義ではなく、輸出実績もなかった。ＤＳＴ
をめぐり、サイト運営会社に「購入した車が届かない」との苦 情が１７カ国か
ら七十数件寄せられ、金額は計２２００万円に上るという。

さらに、運営会社にはＤＳＴ以外の愛知県内２業者への苦情も四十数件寄せら
れ、金額は計２千万円に上る。県警は、この２業者にも４人が関与してい ると
みて調べている。