Classic Car Purchase To Fraud
Ron Sturgeon entered into an agreement to purchase 4 vehicles from Johan Lundberg for $290,000 euros. Johan Lundberg defrauded Sturgeon (or worked with others, including but not limited to the seller, whom Joahn represented) by creating a fake email and banking info.
Sturgeon has lost over $150,000 due to this fraud. Sturgeon has assembled a file with over 300 emails and documents to prove that Johan committed this fraud.
- After months of negotiation, including an inspection trip from TX to Budapest, terms were agreed to, and Sturgeon agreed to send $135,000(dollars) as a deposit.
- All emails to and from Johan were from johan.lundberg@petrolheadclassics.com or his personal gmail account until April 28, 2023.
- March 15, 2023 – Test wire of $100 sent to bank in Hungary for Petrolhead Classics KFT (#507)
- There was a problem and the wire couldn’t go thru. It was corrected and wire was successful.
1951 standard VW Beetle
1951 VW Cabriolet
1956 VW Karman Ghia
Wiring instructions and banks start to change
#350 email with bank information in Hungary
Bank details: Granit Bank Zrt, Lechner Odon fasor 8, HU-1095 Budapest. IBAN: HU78 1210 0011 1016 1508 0000 0000. SWIFT: GNBAHUHB
Email Address Changes
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- April 28 at 7:52am email #95 sent from johan.lundberg@petrolheadclassic.com.
- From April 28 at 7:52am until morning of May 3 all emails came from johan.lundberg@petrolheadclassic.com.
- May 2, 2023 morning Johan sent email #332 from his personal gmail account to Jennifer. She then forwarded the email to Ron and copied Johan at the petrolheadclassics email address. Ron replied to this email Johan’s email at his classicS account (#124) using same subject listed in Johan’s private email. Ron also email (#128) tp ClassiC address.
Johan Claims His Email Was Hacked
(#328 pg5-6) May 11 Johan sent email showing email traces for two emails. The dates show he received the emails May 1 and the other May 3. First one (#328 pg 5 & #510 pg1) with subject, I’m only trying to avoid problem for you was previously only used with the classiC email, yet his trace is showing this subject and his classicS email. It said he received the email at classicS but in the rss subscription folder. Proving he received emails at both classic and classicS addresses. The unique message ID on the trace is the same unique message ID on the email Ron sent.