Woman has car seized by the courts and discovers that the vehicle was financed for another person in the interior of SP

Scams applied to the sale of used cars worry buyers in Piracicaba A dental assistant from Piracicaba (SP) had her used car seized by the courts eight months after purchase. The decision was motivated by signs of irregularities in financing the same vehicle, but made in another person's name. However, the new owner claims not to have been informed about this previous issue. In an interview with EPTV, a TV Globo affiliate, Andrezza da Silva Santos said that he paid R$25,000 as a deposit and also delivered another car as part of the deal with a store. According to her, before the purchase, a precautionary inspection was carried out, which did not indicate restrictions, blockages or debts linked to the vehicle. ? Follow g1 Piracicaba on Instagram The car was seized on June 11th, at Andrezza's work. After that, a new query showed that the vehicle had active financing at Banco Itaú, in the name of a person she said she did not know. "It was full of people, so the humiliation I went through is surreal [...] I showed them, the line was: 'I have nothing to do, I'm going to take your car'. They called the police, then two police officers came [...] they said 'you need to hand over the car otherwise there will be other measures'", he said. Diego Goularte, the woman's lawyer, claims that his client and other people were victims of a scam. "My client was the victim of a scam and, in this scam, there is a ladder of victims. She acquired this vehicle from the parking lot. When she acquired it, the vehicle was clean in all the research. The parking lot, when she acquired it from the previous owner, the vehicle was also clean. And this previous owner, when she identified that a serious issue had been registered on his vehicle's document in the wrong way, informed Banco Itaú. The bank recognized the error, communicated it to Detran and lowered the lien. [...] But he fails to inform the Court that that financing was a product of fraud", he explains. Banco Itaú said it identified signs of irregularity in the contract made with the other person and guaranteed that it will return the vehicle to Andrezza. The financial institution also regretted what happened and reinforced that it reviews internal processes to avoid similar situations. Woman had her car seized by the courts and discovered that the vehicle was financed for someone else Personal file Fraud on the rise Data from the National Council of Justice (CNJ) show that the Piracicaba Court has already filed 41 cases for fraud in 2026. The number is already higher than that registered in the whole of 2025. Furthermore, the survey also shows that cases for fraud committed over the internet are more frequent. According to delegate André França, scams and fraud in vehicle financing are normally carried out by well-organized gangs. "What we have noticed is that they are people with a very high level of sophistication. These are complex crimes, carried out using orange accounts, third-party telephone lines. These are crimes that depend on a very complex investigation", he highlights. Processes for fraud committed over the internet are more frequent RPC See more news about the region on the g1 Piracicaba page VIDEOS: Everything about Piracicaba and the region