A Meten-Meer-Zorg businessman and his wife were, on Tuesday, robbed by a con artist in front of John Fernandes Wharf. According to Satnarine Deonarine, he went on the What’s For Sales Guyana Facebook page where he saw a post on a Bluebird car.

The businessman said he contacted the individual who made the post and the person told him that he was selling the car for $800,000. When the businessman asked why he was selling the vehicle so cheap, the individual in question told him that a woman brought in the car but died, and, as such, he was trying to clear the vehicle at the wharf.

An arrangement was made between the two to meet in front the John Fernandes Wharf on Tuesday morning. There, the businessman gave the ‘con man’ $300,000 as advance payment for the vehicle. The ‘seller’ collected the money and said he was going to do some more paper work, but disappeared from the wharf.

A woman was reportedly conned $500,000 by the said person. Several calls to the phone of the dodgy individual proved futile. The businessman has since made a report to the Brickdam Police Station and is now willing to give anyone a $100,000 as a reward for locating the trickster.