Fayetteville police have arrested a man after they say his alleged victims were tricked into thinking they were getting cars that didn’t exist.
“It was very convincing…” said Gatha Chapel of Fayetteville.
Gatha Chapel says she’s out $1,900 after a friend introduced her to Jarvis Samuel over the phone. She claims Samuel did different voices, at times posing as a lawyer, a millionaire and even a woman named “Cindy” to convince her to buy three cars and sign what she calls a fake modeling contract. Chapel says she told police that she believes the phony modeling contract was just part of a scheme to dupe her into sending photos of herself in her underwear. This happened she says when he apparently claimed to be an attorney named “Thomas.”
“Thomas said his daughters even took advantage of it so that was more convincing. His daughter’s taking advantage of this opportunity? Why not?” Chapel said.
Jasmine Wilson has similar claims.
She says she sent Samuel $500 for what she thought was going to be a down payment on a car for her husband’s birthday. Once Wilson and Chapel realized that none of these things apparently existed, they called the Fayetteville police and Samuel was arrested last Monday. But Wilson says she still feels vulnerable.