Duped customers of the Limburg company Car Driver Deals from Maasbracht might have imagined the weekend differently. Some are even awake now that duped leasing companies are also directing CDD customers to contact them themselves and return cars. Social media and even a Telegram chat are used to spar, talk and share suffering. Meanwhile, lease companies are trying to find addresses of the drivers of their cars through all kinds of constructions. After all, not all cars are equipped with a GPS tracker, so it is difficult to find out where the cars are in order to retrieve them.
At Luxauto, they go so far as to inform the drivers to return the car themselves at the latest next week so as not to incur any further costs that they threaten to recover these costs from the duped customers. Select Car Lease indicates that it does not wish to be linked in any way with Car Driver Deals. They wish everyone who has been or will be affected by this party all the best and ask for understanding for their situation. Sixt removed the car from a CDD customer's door without saying anything or ringing the bell in advance. Sixt could not be reached for comment afterwards and it was only today that they initially acted as if they knew nothing about it. “Would call back because we want our belongings back, but haven't heard anything since.said one of the victims.
"Diks car rental will pick up our car tomorrow, they have also been duped“. Deeply sad for one of CDD's customers who just got a car for a month and prepaid for 2 years. The lease is on another company Dalijaro BV. from Stevensweert, which is one of the shareholders of Atvangarde BV and Diks carverhuur indicated that they are not authorized to drive it.
license plates
The license plates are flying around your ears on social media from rental companies that are looking for their cars. It would concern more than 3000 victims and millions of dollars in damage to the lease companies and duped customers. By publishing license plates on social media, the rental companies hope that persons who use one of these plates will contact the company in question as soon as possible. Munsterhuis Autoverhuur indicates that it has rented out 25 vehicles to Atvangarde BV and also has social media used to find out where their cars were stored. They also indicate that it is no longer possible for them to get in touch with the management and other employees of Atvangarde BV.
"You absolutely have to realize that you've lost money and you've also been scammed. But accept? No, we don't."
report missing to police
Leasing companies indicate that they first look for the cars themselves in order to get the cars back in consultation or to find a suitable solution with the driver. If that is not possible, the vehicles will be reported as missing to the police. From that moment on, license plates are listed as missing in the RDW register. This can have very unpleasant consequences when you are on the road by car, also abroad. In the event of an arrest, you then have the biggest problems because the car is registered as stolen and the police do not know how this happened.
criticism of the media
Also criticism from some of the victims about the media that is on top of this case. Many victims believe that the press and all the negative publicity in recent days have not done this case any good. They believe that this made the promised opportunity for Car Driver Deals to come up with a solution more difficult. Nothing is less true. The attention of the press may have caused the bubble to burst even faster and prevented more victims from coming in. For months there had been no payments by CDD to their suppliers. The complete construction that Messrs Geert and Jan Golsteijn had come up with was at the falter like a house of cards. Still, many duped customers still believe in Car Driver Deals as a reliable company to this day, despite cars being removed from the door with all private items in them.
