A Newport Beach car rental company allows people to borrow Moke electric vehicles that resemble golf carts: Because of their compact size and open-air design, they are popular at outdoor events like Coachella Festival to shuttle people around.
Chad Marta, the owner of Newport Beach Moke, said he wasn’t surprised when he got a last-minute rental request from a man who presented himself as a concierge with a headline artist at Coachella.
However, Marta now believes he may not see the four buggies he rented out to the person because of an elaborate scam, and he’s out of hundreds of thousands of dollars…