‘Looked so legitimate’: Scammers pose as Nebraska car dealers, cheat buyers out of thousands - Flatwater Free Press

‘Looked so legitimate’: Scammers pose as Nebraska car dealers, cheat buyers out of thousands - Flatwater Free Press

James Wood wasn’t feeling safe at his own north Lincoln car lot. A cop had called him in mid-November, wondering what had happened to the $45,000 a Pennsylvania family had wired for a 2017 Lexus. No Lexus here, Wood told him. A few days later, a rental car pulled up to his lot. The driver had flown from Florida to pick up an $85,000 Land Rover his friend had bought, sight-unseen, over the internet. “I said, ‘What Land Rover?’ He said, ‘The one y…