According to Nassau police, a
17-year-old Queens girl together with six other men of from Bronx
tried to scam some buyers with fake ads on the internet for cheap Porches.
The girl, Agniesika Banach, 17, a resident of Maspeth, Queens, came to an inventive idea to make easy money: rob
people blind through internet ads.
She placed three fake ads taken from the Craiglist ads for
Porches and placed them in the section of Long Island
on the Website in order to attract buyers from that area, Newsday.com reports.
One of the ads sounded promising: a 2002 Porsche 911 Turbo
at the price of $ 50,000. Another one said that the owner of a "stunning
Carmona red" 2007 Porsche 911 was selling it for $ 60,000.
The girl recruited over the internet six men, ages 16 to 19,
in order to rob the people who answered the ads.
Det. Lt. Karl Schoepp said: "You have a 17-year-old
student scheming in her home, knowing that people will jump at a bargain that
is too good to be true, and using the Internet to lure her victims," the
New York Daily News said.
A couple answered one ad for a 2006 Porsche. On November 26
the couple from Pennsylvania
came to a residence on Rose Street
where they were attacked and robbed by four men. The robbers took $ 4,000 from
the couple, the down payment for the car.
On December 6 another robbery took place. Two men from Long
Island came to buy a 2002 Porsche from Banach and they came to a Lorenz Avenue home
in Baldwin. Here they were attacked by several
men, but they managed to escape them. The robbers only managed to take $50 from
the $22,000 which was money for the down payment.
Banach was arrested on December 17. Police managed to track
her down through the information from the Cariglist and from the digital tracks
she left.
Banach, a student at the High School for Environmental
Studies in Manhattan,
pleaded not guilty for the robbery charges. She is due in court on January 16.
Schoepp said: “She played on the greed factor of people
looking to get a bargain,"
Her accomplices were caught after police seized her
computer.
