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Statement from Jeffrey Chu 6/24/26 - I, Jeffrey Chu, reached out to Dave's Used Auto Sales inquiring about a vehicle for sale on their website. A 2023 Porsche 911 GT3 RS Tribute Edition (VIN: WP0AF2A99PS278230). David Renfroe, the person helping me on the phone, states the car is available but there is a lot of interest and he had a couple of appointments of people coming in to view the car. David provided me with the CarFax on the vehicle when I requested it via DocSend through text message. 6/25/26 - I try to do some due diligence (called a neighboring business to see if the dealership and address is real, read some Google reviews from previous customers, tried to find any negative reviews on this business). David sends me a full walk-around video and photos of the car and answers my questions via DocSend and text. I agreed to purchase the vehicle at the listed $389,000 price so he sent me an invoice for the car, the Bill of Sales, his Alabama dealership license certificate, and wiring instructions. 6/26/26 - I made an appointment at 2PM PST at my local Wells Fargo Bank to make the wire transfer to their Bank of America account. I sent David a copy of my scanned wire transfer confirmation documents via email and text. He confirms that he received the documents but the funds show pending. The wire transfer went to the following account: Account Name: Vacekco LLC Bank Name: Bank of America Account #: 325217136769 Routing #: 026009593 Payment Reference: DUAS062626GT3 6/29/26 - David confirms funds have cleared in his account and states he will transport the car at no-charge to my address in Las Vegas, NV because he has a delivery going out to California on Tuesday 6/30/26 and he will load my car on the same truck. He confirms that the car should arrive on Friday, 7/3/26. He also states he will send the signed title to me via a trackable delivery service such as Fedex. I agree. 6/30/26 - I continue to stay in contact with David via text in regards to confirming the car made it onto the transport truck and that the title would be mailed to my correct address. He confirms but does not provide any photos or tracking information. He also does not provide the name of the driver of the transport or his contact information. He says he will mail the title out tomorrow, 7/1/26. 7/1/26 - I asked David via text to see if the title was mailed out. He replies and states his secretary created a Fedex shipping label for the title but he had to leave the office early and could not provide me the tracking number. He states he would send me the tracking info tomorrow, 7/2/26. 7/2/26 - I reached out to David on Thursday regarding the tracking info for the Fedex package and to obtain the transport driver’s name and contact information and he completely stopped responding to me. I tried calling and texting with no response from David or anyone else from the dealership. 7/3/26 - I repeatedly text, call, and email David all day with no response or reply. I waited for a contact via call or text from any transport company and received no form of contact. 7/4/26 - I noticed the website for www.davesusedautosales.net is completely down. I filed a complaint with the FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3). Awaiting a response with a claim or case number. I made an appointment to the same local Wells Fargo Bank branch for Monday, 7/6/26 to see if there are any recourse for the wire transfer made the week prior. Will be filing a police report with my local area command office as well as the office in Jacksonville, Alabama on Monday, 7/6/26. A friend of mine who is savvy in internet investigations finds information that the domain www.davesusedautosales.net was created by someone in the Netherlands using a VPN. This scam group may also be involved in another car dealership scam with the website www.kb-automotive.com. They used websites such as Fastly.com for the photos for their cars. See the attached description page for more information including IP addresses.