Car dealer duped into sale

A GARAGE owner was duped into selling a car to a man who made a phone-call pretending to be from a bank confirming the price of the car had been lodged in the vendor’s account.

Kevin O’Keefe also brought a photocopy of a bank lodgement slip to the garage which purported to prove €1,100 had been lodged.

It was this aspect of the deception that led to a criminal charge being brought against O’Keefe, of Clongeel Lower, Boherbue, Mallow, Co Cork. He was charged with using a copy of a TSB lodgement slip indicating that €1,100 had been lodged into the account of Mid-Cork Motor Company in order to induce the company to give him a car of that value.