A Rennais was the victim of a fake bank check when he sold his car on Leboncoin. Illustration (Public Domain Images/Pixabay)
Thanks to the media coverage of his story, a resident of Rennes (Ille-et-Vilaine) was able to recover a large part of the sum he lost after falling victim to a scam. A possible win thanks to a small paragraph in the general conditions of sale of his car insurance.
A man was scammed by selling his vehicle on Leboncoin. Due to a fraudulent bank cheque, he was never able to receive the expected 21,000 euros. However, his bank had assured him that the check was genuine.
This resident of Rennes (Ille-et-Vilaine) had raised an alarm in November 2022. The media coverage that allowed him to meet a young woman who partially pulled him out of this bad situation, reports
Rennes news
. She contacted him on Twitter because he had been scammed with a fake bank check, including during a sale on Leboncoin.
A short paragraph
He invited the victim to re-read the general conditions of sale of his car insurance. In the document, a paragraph states:
“Special when obtaining the vehicle by delivery of a fraudulent bank check: we compensate up to the amount appearing on the fraudulent bank check, up to a maximum of 15,000 euros”
. Information that does not necessarily concern all insurance companies.
Heartened, the victim then joined her insurance company, which initially refused this compensation because it was out of time. But she assured that no deadline was mentioned in the document.
He intends to take legal action
On the occasion of the second summons, the insurance company finally agreed to open a compensation procedure, at the beginning of December 2022. An expert assessed the value of the vehicle to calculate the amount to be paid, i.e. 14,450 euros.
“When I saw it, I found hope”
assured the victim. This sum, he received on December 24th.
But the man does not intend to stop there: 7,000 euros are still missing and he is struggling to digest the bank’s mistake on the check. He plans to take legal action and has called a bank fraud attorney.
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