Joe Dono aka JAPworks scammer

[Trip]

This thread has been sweeping the net.

http://www.tamparacing.com/forums/ge...a-scammer.html

Quick quide:

20 year old kid takes Celica to a ricer shop that is doing poorly. Tells them to do all this fancy stuff like painting and carbon fiber to it and gives them a little money and tells them his grandfather will pay for it after the work is done because he is old school. Car shop because it is in desperate need for money does the work and of course stupid kid scams them. He tries to steal the car and then uses his mom and girlfriend to get the car back with no success. Turns out he doesn't even own the car, his mom owns the car and it has a huge loan on it. Kid gets the police involved and shop gets the florida state attorney involved. Internet thread becomes a sensation and everyone is saying poor local business and donating to it.

Personally, I think the shop is a joke. You fall for that shit because you are losing money... Morons. They need to hire a new shop owner with the extra attention and donations they are getting from the net and maybe they won't fall for something as moronic as a 20 year old ricer.

Both parties are idiots.

[Rider]

I don't know the entire story but I agree with you Trip. Idiots on both sides.

[NONE_too_SOFT]

Originally Posted by Rider

I don't know the entire story but I agree with you Trip. Idiots on both sides.

ya for real. i say let them duel to the death, the prize for the winner of the duel? death.

[Mr Lefty]

yeah there was something similar on another forum I lurked through... this guy had his bike repo'd... so the forum donated money... when they got close... all of a sudden he dissapeared.... didn't post again... some of these fuckers donated $150+ insane

[JoJoYZF]

Originally Posted by Ebbs15

yeah there was something similar on another forum I lurked through... this guy had his bike repo'd... so the forum donated money... when they got close... all of a sudden he dissapeared.... didn't post again... some of these fuckers donated $150+ insane

I think I saw that same thread. I actually saw that same type of thing work on my other forum. They helped the dude out with keeping his bike, but he was actually a longtime member that was known personally by a few other members.

[BobTheBiker]

what a retard. oh well, someone else's car now bitch!

[PiZdETS]

I dont think they really put $16,000 into it and if they did they deserved to get scammed.

The car was completely redone. Complete repaint including engine bay and pulling all glass and seals, smoothing out the interior panels and two toning them, building a custom sub enclosure and covering it in carbon fiber, custom amp racks and nitrous bottle brackets, carbon overlays on the roof and hatch, turbo install, e-manage install, custom fiberglass center console to mount gauges in, just a lot of work in general.

That's bullshitspeak for "we put in about 5 grand and we're going to milk this for all it's worth".
If they did do almost 20 grand worth of work on faith alone, to a celica, for a 20 year old with an "oldschool" grandpa... Jesus christ this country is doomed.

edit; just read further and discovered that the cars an automatic and that the shop owner plans to sell it for the amount of mods done.
There's isn't a forum on the internet with an array of smilies vast enough to express my lolling.