Britain's latest growth industry - Crash Scamming
Britain's latest growth industry - Crash Scamming
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Police State

Original Poster:

4,367 posts

249 months

Saturday 21st August 2010
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11044315

"Crash for cash" scams where fraudsters stage accidents to claim on other drivers' insurance are at an all-time high, the BBC has learned.


where can I get one of those on board video cams that hold the last 60 secs of footage?




carinaman

25,171 posts

201 months

Saturday 21st August 2010
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I don't know but I did see that kid on the pavement smirking in Birmingham after supposedly being hit on Emergency Bikers on Channel 5 a couple of weeks ago.

BlueMR2

9,459 posts

231 months

Saturday 21st August 2010
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They need to have industry wide investigative teams to handle things like this.

Like that guy that got paid to write of cars and did it at the same place loads of times.

Alot of people not getting paid out for the accidents then a few more getting done for fraud should help out.

The same should be done for other things like 2 people in the car and 5 claiming whiplash.

carinaman

25,171 posts

201 months

Saturday 21st August 2010
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It's like:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7549812.stm


Given the amount of police footage on TV where they use ANPR to catch uninsured drivers like the chap in Essex on Emergency Bikers exporting that Primera to Africa saying 'We all have to pay lots for our insurance why should people get away without also paying for insurance?' they need to look at these scams as they're driving up premiums for the rest of us just as uninsured drivers are.

Opengate

72 posts

193 months

Saturday 21st August 2010
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carinaman said:
It's like:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7549812.stm


Given the amount of police footage on TV where they use ANPR to catch uninsured drivers like the chap in Essex on Emergency Bikers exporting that Primera to Africa saying 'We all have to pay lots for our insurance why should people get away without also paying for insurance?' they need to look at these scams as they're driving up premiums for the rest of us just as uninsured drivers are.
People do get away with it. So the ANPR catches them, they get a 'ban' then just drive anyway.

Anyway it's propoganda that ANPR is used to catch uninsured drivers, it's really a mass surveillance system. Has it driven down premiums?

flakeypaul

436 posts

219 months

Saturday 21st August 2010
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Opengate said:
Anyway it's propoganda that ANPR is used to catch uninsured drivers, it's really a mass surveillance system. Has it driven down premiums?
[tinhatmodeon]

Yes and the moon landings were staged, Diana was killed by Prince Philip and the WTC attacks were orchestrated by George Bush, Queen Elizabeth and Colonel Sanders.

[tinhademodeoff]

Opengate

72 posts

193 months

Saturday 21st August 2010
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flakeypaul said:
Opengate said:
Anyway it's propoganda that ANPR is used to catch uninsured drivers, it's really a mass surveillance system. Has it driven down premiums?
[tinhatmodeon]

Yes and the moon landings were staged, Diana was killed by Prince Philip and the WTC attacks were orchestrated by George Bush, Queen Elizabeth and Colonel Sanders.

[tinhademodeoff]
How is it not a mass surveillance system?

Data is fed to a central facility and stored. Comprehansive (getting there) coverage means that cars (and thus people) can be tracked in real time or their past movements analysed.

Kindersley

329 posts

194 months

Saturday 21st August 2010
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Police State said:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11044315

"Crash for cash" scams where fraudsters stage accidents to claim on other drivers' insurance are at an all-time high, the BBC has learned.


where can I get one of those on board video cams that hold the last 60 secs of footage?
Is this not how they have been funding Bradford for the last few years?

No wonder more and more people are getting in car CCTV fitted.

7mike

3,214 posts

222 months

Saturday 21st August 2010
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Here's a list of the current top 10 hotspots. Glad I use the top five regularly.

http://www.walletpop.co.uk/2010/04/28/cash-for-cra...

volumeone

321 posts

193 months

Saturday 21st August 2010
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anonymous said:
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"Asians" as in Chinese, Japanese, Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Koreans, Malaysians, Russians, Sri Lankans, Turks etc are all scammers?

I think if you're going to be fascist you should at least be specific and understand who you're talking about.

Elroy Blue

8,839 posts

221 months

Saturday 21st August 2010
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Opengate said:
Anyway it's propoganda that ANPR is used to catch uninsured drivers, it's really a mass surveillance system. Has it driven down premiums?
The two thousand cars my small unit seized last year as a result of ANPR must be a figment of my imagination!

Edited by Elroy Blue on Saturday 21st August 11:58

ShadownINja

80,056 posts

311 months

Saturday 21st August 2010
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flakeypaul said:
[tinhatmodeon]
Diana was killed by Prince Philip
[tinhademodeoff]
Utter BS. I saw her in my local Tesco on Wednesday.

j44esd

1,237 posts

252 months

Saturday 21st August 2010
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flakeypaul said:
[tinhatmodeon]

Colonel Sanders.

[tinhademodeoff]
The bd! hehe

flakeypaul

436 posts

219 months

Saturday 21st August 2010
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j44esd said:
flakeypaul said:
[tinhatmodeon]

Colonel Sanders.

[tinhademodeoff]
The bd! hehe
OI! HEED! MUUUUUVE!!!

anonymous-user

83 months

Saturday 21st August 2010
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And the root cause of this??

yep, those stupid personal injury payouts, ah, boo, hoo, i think i might have hurt my neck, really?? gosh, here's £10k to make it better........ feck'in ridiculous!!!

Mermaid

21,492 posts

200 months

Saturday 21st August 2010
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anonymous said:
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We do need to say it as we see it sometimes, or we do ourselves a disservice.

We also do a disservice to the majority innocents of this group of people for they also get tarred with the same brush. I would never buy a car from Bradford for instance.... is that prejudice? They need to sort it out.


wildoliver

9,308 posts

245 months

Saturday 21st August 2010
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You'd need a big boat to sort it out.

10 Pence Short

32,880 posts

246 months

Saturday 21st August 2010
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volumeone said:
anonymous said:
[redacted]
"Asians" as in Chinese, Japanese, Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Koreans, Malaysians, Russians, Sri Lankans, Turks etc are all scammers?

I think if you're going to be fascist you should at least be specific and understand who you're talking about.
They tend to be the ones who like to kneel down and pray in a certain direction a few tims a day, reporting to the one they don't like having drawn in cartoons. And then the Scousers...

130R

7,083 posts

235 months

Saturday 21st August 2010
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mrchrisdavies said:
What you notice when you go to america, they pretty much started all this legal no-win-no-fee society we have. yet not many people take the p*** out of the system over there, nor are they suing left right and centre like we do over here.
I'm sorry but laugh

fat tony

392 posts

236 months

Saturday 21st August 2010
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I know from experiance that certain groups are involved in specific areas of fraud/crime. Asians-Pakistanis/Indians etc are involved in rear end/slam on car fraud. Eastern Europeans/russian/Latvians are involved in credit card fraud. The Chinese are heavy into Heroin and people smuggling. And us white folk like to claim for juice/wine on our carpets and laptops. Its just certain folk are more liable to be involved in each area, there is also an overlap/cooperation between the racial groups. I understand these examples could upset certain people, but its down to ignorance and denial from the communites these criminals come from.