Man tries to pay a swindler for car accident damages, ends up getting professional-level revenge with the help of a lawyer

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
Mar 24, 2023 3:00 PM EDT

One guy tried to do the right thing in the aftermath of a car crash, but he ended up catching a shady dude in a legal trap. As u/bigcapper69 shared to r/ProRevenge, he got in a bit of a fender bender one night, and hit the mirror and door of another man's vehicle. This dude, Brent, seemed cool about the accident at first. Brent suggested they avoid insurance, which the OP agreed to. 

However, the OP was no dope. After not hearing any word from Brent, suddenly he demands about $2,400! The OP did agree to pay for nearly $5,000 in damages, but he managed to protect himself from owing even more money to Brent. The OP wrote up a nice contract and Brent signed it immediately, without ever reading it! The OP realized that wasn't a great sign, but he had a watertight case when he finally took the case to a lawyer. The result was some pro revenge! 

Up next, these travelers didn't do their research before going abroad, so they decided to ask some of the dumbest questions imaginable. 

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    Human body - r/ProRevenge Posted by u/bigcapper69 . 912 10 I won over $5,000 for in court after a car accident that I caused?
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    Font - okay, so just a little bit of info before I get into the story. also sorry this might get a little long, but I hope its worth it I (22 M) work construction and run a few crews and I'm a foreman because I've been working in this field since I started working summers when I was 14 (that's legal in my state) with this being said I have a lot of experience and get paid really well. for my job I need a truck that can pull a lot of trailers and also get into a lot of sketchy job sites (especial
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    Font - anyways, lets get into it. so about 4 months ago now I got off work one day and just really didn't feel like making dinner, so I decided to go get myself the trusty Big Mac at McDonalds. well after I got my order I was going to pull out into the parking lot to drive home and I was looking hard over to my left to see how busy the road was before I got over there, well I wasn't paying great attention to what was happening in front of me and as I was creeping forward someone who was in front
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    Font - my front end. I Immediately reversed and hopped out, I made sure the guy was okay and apologized, knowing it was my fault and I asked him if he wanted to call the cops. lets call him Brent, Brent says, "nah bro we are all good, if you just get me your insurance info I think we can get this taken care of." I was fine with that as there was no damage done to my truck and its not required to call the cops for an accident if it occurs in a private parking lot (this is relevant later). we exch
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    Font - About a month passes by and I haven't heard anything from Brent or the shop I told him to go to, honestly I wasn't too stressed about this because if he decided to not get it done that's on him. Well, he calls me up one day at about noon saying he can't remember my name and he wanted to tell the guys at the shop who sent him there cause it seemed like we knew each other, I told him my name and the guys at the shop "gave him a deal" (pretty sure they say this to everyone lol). he sends me
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    Font - ANOTHER month goes by and I don't hear anything until Brent calls me up while I'm at work again and says, "hey brotha, I talked to the shop and they said they can't get me in for another 2 weeks or so, and they may end up charging me more if they find more damage." I say, "okay sounds good just let me know man, I hope it goes smooth for you and I'm sorry for the inconvenience." he seems to take it good and I'm really trying to just be a good person. He responds with, "well after talking t
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    Font - yet ANOTHER MONTH passes by and I hear nothing again, at this point I'm getting fed up and just want this situation ti stop being over my head. He hits me up at 11pm, one night and asks if we can meet in town, I found this kind of disrespectful because I was nearly asleep and had to be at work at 5am the next day, either way I said that was fine and took my $2,500 cash and wrote up a quick contract saying this payment would be accepted as payment in full for the damages and by accepting i
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    Font - as you can guess by now, ANOTHER F MONTH goes by with me just living life carefree and not a worry in the world about this stupid car accident. Well, I go to check my mail and I have a notice from this guys lawyer that he is suing me for not paying after wrecking his car! This ped me off but I also knew I had plenty of text messages and a CONTRACT on my side. I immediately call Brent and he blocks my number. Luckily enough my girlfriend works for a lawyer so I get him updated and he says
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    Font - this guy owns the company and I can see that he has about 12 1 star reviews all in dispute because of his shady business practices telling people it will cost one thing and then charging them FOUR TIMES what he said it would. sound familiar? remember when he said the shop may charge more than the original $2,403? that's right he was suing me for $10,000. FOUR TIMES what the shop told him it would cost. unbelievable, he was trying his same sneaky son me. my lawyer takes not of this and we
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    Font - This guy is sleazy. as we get there and all set up he says, "you ready to give me more of daddy's money?" with a smirk. (I guess just cause I'm young and drive a nice truck and could afford $2,500 lol) his lawyer gets up and starts trying to say BS from me hitting and running and Brent barely got a picture of my license plate, to I tried bullying him into taking a deal for only $2,500 when the damage was clearly more than that. there were obvious holes in his story and he really didn't ha
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    Font - up ruling in my favor and demanded him to pay my legal fees as well as damages and lost wages because I had to miss work to be in court. the absolute sweetest part was that this particular day my crew was on a VERY high wage job and I was technically the one getting paid before I paid them out as sub contractors, this means I was to be paid $475/hour and this whole ordeal took about 5 hours, he ended up having to pay ME almost $5,000. I don't think I've ever been so happy in my life. sort
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    Font - remainoftheday perfect... lawyers absolutely hate lying clients as, like in this case, it blows up in their face and makes them look like idiots. I have no doubt that lawyer also took it out on mr sleaze out of earshot.
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    Font - Rwhitechocmuffin Love it! I used to work in car accident investigation (for when the circumstances didn't add up for the insurance company) so I love stories like this! Got what he deserved.
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    Font - Child-Like-Empress. I work for a large insurance company and cannot stress this enough- get yourself a dash cam!
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    Font - mermaidpaint Nicely done with the contract! As a former auto claims rep, I would ask to see an estimate from the shop explaining why he was asking for $2,500 first. But you nailed him good with the contract.
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    Font - gothiclg If I was getting $2,500 to f take it off I'd
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    Font - uptbbs Don't forget to update the BBB page so that other scam victims can read about Brent's continuing history of fraud.
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    Font - jedledbetter That happened to me, I paid the guy $2500 with two cashier's checks, after I gave him the last check he calls me a day or two later and says he lost it, I said tough s not my problem.
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    Font - Korrin I just can't understand the mindset of people like this. The fact that after so much evidence was piled against him to prove that not only he was a scum bag scammer, but that he had already gotten $2500 out of you for the damages, he straight up asked the judge if he could just have another $2500... as if that would somehow make things more reasonable.
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    Font - I believe it though. My mom knows a woman who committed insurance fraud. She scratched up her own car and then sent in a random claim against someone she hadn't even been in an accident with. After her case was thrown out and she was made to pay the other guys lawyer's fees she told my mom "I can't believe they're so greedy. I only wanted $10,000."
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