'If this happen to me, it can happen to anybody,' says Avon man who's warning you about a nasty $20k scam

Investigative Reporter at News 5 Cleveland

It’s hard to imagine losing $20,000 to an online scam unless you’re a man from Avon who just recently lived through that. His bad luck, though, doesn’t stop there and yet he wanted to step forward to warn you about the bad truck deal.“I was involved in an accident,” said Jeff Smolinski, who crashed his car recently. He wanted to replace it with a red Chevy pick-up truck he found online from a business supposedly located in Alabama. “My search was a very slow process,” said Smolinski.

Customers lose big money to cabinet company; one owner with felony warrants runs from our camerasHowever, they never got them from the seller, Chris Cook, who denied his own name when we confronted him at the time but was convicted of a felony in the case.Smolinski said Cook eventually paid them back. Smolinski told us he now hopes his truck money can be recovered, too. ‘To this day, I still can’t believe it, that this happened,” he said.

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