Man Arrested After He Sold His Car To 8+ Buyers On Facebook Then Stole It Back From Them

A man has been arrested and is facing 98 years in prison after he sold his car to more than eight buyers on Facebook Marketplace – and then stole it back from them.

Mamadou Diallo, 24, from Kansas City, concocted the scheme where he would use the alias “Yabebal Cherinet” to sell two vehicles – a 2013 gray Honda Civic and a 2013 brown Buick Verano – multiple times on Facebook Marketplace.

He provided buyers with what appeared to be legitimate titles and bills of sale in exchange for cash. Shortly after each transaction, often within hours, he would then return to the location and use a spare key to steal the car back from the new owner.

Then he would simply re-list the car on Facebook Marketplace, sell it again, and steal it back again. Rinse and repeat. Basically an infinite money glitch!

Incredibly, he got away with it 8 times, but ultimately was arrested and charged for running the scheme, which he carried out between May and June 2025.

In the end, at least eight buyers were defrauded of more than $24,000 total. One victim caught Diallo on CCTV driving the car away from her property just seven hours after he sold her the car.

Diallo now faces 14 felony counts, including six counts of first-degree tampering with a motor vehicle and eight counts of forgery.

If convicted on all counts, he faces a maximum sentence of 98 years in prison up to seven years per count)!

I bet he didn’t expect that harsh a sentence, but I guess someone who would do something so devious does deserve to be locked up for a long time. 98 years though? It does seem a bit excessive.

Still, you have to be pretty dumb to think you could get away with this forever. The guy probably thought he was some kind of solo heist genius who would never be traced. Imagine how gassed he was after the 5th or 6th time it worked?

Next level stupidity. You live and you learn.

For the man who robbed a woman at gunpoint and then added her on Facebook and asked her out, click HERE. Who says romance is dead eh?

[h/t the Independent]