Since May of
this year until about 1 week ago, a car scam was going on in the Pattaya car
rental business. A lady from Bangkok aproched local car rental companies and
brokers to rent cars to be rented by companies in Bangkok. The
prices the suppliers of cars got were to good to be true, so most of them
started to rent out their own cars and all the cars they could rent from other
companies and friends and family. Our company was approched by one of
the local brokers and we rented 2 of our cars to them. Last Sunday (02/08/2008),
my wife saw a program on Thai TV, stating there was a big car theft going on all
over the country. We checked about our cars, but they had disappeared. The
broker we rented the cars to has lost a total of 59 cars (own and rented), the
rental companies in Pattaya are missing 280 cars. The police got involved on
Wednesday (06/08/2008) and today (08/08/2008) we went to Bangkok to see the
current result of the investigation (5 cars recovered at 2nd hand car shops) and
heared how we will be notified if one of our cars will be recovered. We already
had an untracable phone call from a 2nd hand car dealer in Bangkok to
confirm that we really wanted to sell our Vios. Below you will find a list of
the stolen cars. If you are looking for a 2nd hand car at this moment and find
one of these cars at a shop, please let us know on cartheft@westerncarrental.com.
Thanks.
