White Van Scammers getting away with Fraud for Decades in the Houston Area

I'm writing this post compile some information.
This week I ran into 2 guys in a white SUV that were peddling shoddy Chinese 4k Projectors.
This was off of 290 and Fry Rd.
They claim to be owners of a company called "Sound & Vision".
This is apparently a "White Van Speaker Scam". I've never heard of it, just researched it after my interaction.

We pulled over in a Buffalo Wild Wing parking lot to discuss. I held them up in the parking lot for quite a while just asking questions and trying to understand what was happening.
The scheme goes something like this:

"Hey would you like a crazy deal on a 4K projector?"
You pull over to talk with them, and the gist is this:
"We install projectors for Buffalo Wild Wings, there was a mistake in our inventory system and we have 4 projectors instead of 2. If we don't offload these now, the contractors take them for free."
"You seem like a cool guy, I'd rather let you have them then the contractors. We're not trying to get rich, we just want positive reviews for our company"

The projectors are cheap Chinese products intended to be used for fraud. They proudly display the insanely inflated MSRP on the box $7,999.99. In reality they are worth less than $100. There is a product webpage for their crap products which also displays a hyper inflated MSRP. Evidently they have also created sales pages for these things on Ebay and Facebook Market. They are very effective at spewing their scheme, after looking it up they have been doing this for probably over 10 years. There are multiple threads on Reddit alone referencing them:

Those TV Scammers on my Dashcam : houston

Beware of the whitevan scam Houston! : houston

Beware of scammers near Micro Center. : houston

There is video / picture evidence of the exact same man who always seems to be present (Brad Mclurd). He is getting away with fraud daily and no one has stopped him. Can we not come together on this subreddit and collectively stop this oxygen thief?

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