Scott Hawkins - Cathi (Kathi) Miller - D2A Group - 4celling.com - End25.com ripped me off for $15000+! Internet

In October of 2006 I answered a Craigslist ad for a European Smart Car in San Francisco. It turns out that the car wasn't actually here but was being imported by a company named D2A Group. It also turns out that they were in Colorado, not California.

After a lot of communication between Scott Hawkins, Cathi Miller and I, I decided to proceed with a purchase if they came to me physically and we had a signed contract.

They were acting as brokers. They said they had the shipping and registration all set up and said they had done this before. I knew it was possible to do this but didn't know how myself so I decided to go ahead after speaking with the shop in the U.K. that would be selling me the car.

BTW- The shop in the U.K. is a real Smart Car repair and sales shop and I spoke with one of the owners there many times.

They did indeed come out to California and spoke not only with me but with a Smart dealer (Rajun Cajun in Reno) who hooked them up with someone in the Bay Area who had purchased two of their cars.

This person let them use one of the cars while here in the Bay Area and ordered one from them as well. Our cars were to be shipped together.

So, we have a contract that we both sign and I proceed with the deal. Which involved me paying Scott and Cathi $5000 to import, register and deliver the car to me. I then pay for my Smart Car with a $9000 wire transfer to http://chequeredflaguk.co.uk for my Car.

I wait patiently for my car to arrive and Scott and Cathi are in constant contact with me as well as Leigh (one of the owners of Chequered Flag).

After the deadline passes on the contract I get a little annoyed and tell them I need the car or my money returned to me. Scott, being the type of person that he is keeps me from making too much of a fuss with a lot of reassurances and bold faced lies. He really does have a talent for misleading and reassuring people, I'll give him that.

This goes on for awhile until I finally get mad enough to really lay into them. This is when they skip town...

I then contact Leigh in the U.K. and she informs me that she actually sent some of the money that I wired to her back to them because they said they needed the funds for shipping purposes.

I then try to set up shipping on my own but I hadn't done that before so that didn't work out too well for me. Now I know how to do it on my own.

After some time Leigh gets annoyed that she's got these two cars sitting in her lot that have been registered for export and is realizing that she's dealing with a person who has ripped off two people in California (that I know of).

I fully understand that I made a fatal error in my judgment of and trust of these two people.

Today I have paid over $2000 in interest on the loan I took out for this car. I made this deal right as I started a new business and was learning the ropes... the hard way. I prefer to believe that most people are decent and didn't expect to be ripped off.

I'm actually out closer to $16000 at this point.

BTW- After some time Leigh sells her part of the business and the two Smart Cars "disappear". I assume that they were stripped of useable parts and the shells eventually dumped somewhere.

This is another number I've found for Scott. It's with a company called 4celling.com and the other person on the website is the other guy that didn't get his Smart. Not sure how I feel about that or what to think. I've been in contact with this other guy the entire time and thought he was honest. That number is 415-532-4552.

More relevant information. Scott Allen Hawkins- DOB 3/4/67 Residences listed at 5165 Crestwood Dr. Colorado Springs, CO, 80918 and the most recent I've found in Texarkana, TX owned by a Merle Hawkins 77yrs old who is most likely his father.

Past phone numbers are 719.217.0614 and 719.200.9352

I've got every e-mail between him and I stating all the details, promises and, as I now know, lies. I've also got our contract, whatever that's worth.

I would love to know what to do to press charges against him. I'm sure I'll never get any financial compensation from him but I'd be happy with seeing him fully prosecuted for his crimes.

These are other sites that seem to be his:

http://handscribed.com/?page_id=56

http://4celling.com/wp/?page_id=2

and when I put his number into Google I get this site as well as the 4celling site:

http://end25.com/

If you are in contact with this individual please learn from my mistake and do not trust this guy or his accomplice, Cathi.

Jmc
San Francisco, California
U.S.A.