Bloke caught commiting car insurance fraud on the phone!
Bloke caught commiting car insurance fraud on the phone!
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Urban Sports

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11,321 posts

227 months

Thursday 19th July 2012
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Apologies if a re post, but what an absolute divvy!!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18889902

TheLordJohn

5,746 posts

170 months

Thursday 19th July 2012
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Good post.
Shame it isn't this easy to catch every fraudster.

SSBB

698 posts

180 months

Thursday 19th July 2012
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Surely he will never get insured again if he is done for fraud?

Whitean3

2,194 posts

222 months

Thursday 19th July 2012
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SSBB said:
Surely he will never get insured again if he is done for fraud?
That's the problem though, isn't it? Insurance companies can put a black mark against his name, raise the costs massively for his policy or simply refuse to insure him. If he can't find anyone to insure him, I'll bet he'd drive around uninsured.

Urban Sports

Original Poster:

11,321 posts

227 months

Thursday 19th July 2012
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Whitean3 said:
That's the problem though, isn't it? Insurance companies can put a black mark against his name, raise the costs massively for his policy or simply refuse to insure him. If he can't find anyone to insure him, I'll bet he'd drive around uninsured.
He won't drive round uninsured, didn't you hear him say he does everything by the book?

hehe

Another Fluffer

3,888 posts

189 months

Thursday 19th July 2012
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SSBB said:
Surely he will never get insured again if he is done for fraud?
Hopefully!

The Moose

23,572 posts

233 months

Thursday 19th July 2012
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rofl

What a wker - hope they throw the fking book at the miserable

tommy vercetti

11,595 posts

187 months

Thursday 19th July 2012
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Lmao what a tosser.

FunkyNige

9,728 posts

299 months

Thursday 19th July 2012
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So presumably this has worked for some people? Just reverse a car into a lamppost and claim thousands?

SSBB

698 posts

180 months

Thursday 19th July 2012
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Whitean3 said:
SSBB said:
Surely he will never get insured again if he is done for fraud?
That's the problem though, isn't it? Insurance companies can put a black mark against his name, raise the costs massively for his policy or simply refuse to insure him. If he can't find anyone to insure him, I'll bet he'd drive around uninsured.
Hmm. There is that I suppose. Although it is supposedly harder to do these days due to the ANPR cameras. Still, bet the punishments aren't up to much.

Megaflow

11,094 posts

249 months

Thursday 19th July 2012
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And the 2012 Darwin award goes to...

rofl

What a tool.

Fox-

13,547 posts

270 months

Thursday 19th July 2012
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How would his plan even have worked? If it would have worked why do the crash for cash gangs waste time and effort involving third parties when all they need to do is hire a minibus and drive it into a wall?

richb77

887 posts

185 months

Thursday 19th July 2012
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SSBB said:
Surely he will never get insured again if he is done for fraud?
Sadly not the case.

A relative of mine was imprisoned for motoring fraud.

He couldnt afford the premiums on his release and re-licence so insured his mrs for 5 years as a "driver". After the 5 years was up it was all wiped clean and forgotten.

Back to being a prat on the road in either his 911 (2 year old at the time), M3 or his Ducati 998,

And yes he is a complete tool.

Hub

6,997 posts

222 months

Thursday 19th July 2012
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Megaflow said:
And the 2012 Darwin award goes to...
He's not dead! wink

Anyway, unless insurance company staff are as thick as he is then I doubt he would have succeeded even if he managed to hang up properly.

RZ1

4,486 posts

230 months

Thursday 19th July 2012
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Like someone posted above, how does this work if he drives a car into the lam post him self, he has no other car to claim from?

Fas1975

1,802 posts

188 months

Thursday 19th July 2012
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RZ1 said:
Like someone posted above, how does this work if he drives a car into the lam post him self, he has no other car to claim from?
He's not claiming He's declared the "accident" thats all. Its his passengers who will claim off his policy, i.e. effectively sue him.

5678

6,146 posts

251 months

Thursday 19th July 2012
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Fas1975 said:
RZ1 said:
Like someone posted above, how does this work if he drives a car into the lam post him self, he has no other car to claim from?
He's not claiming He's declared the "accident" thats all. Its his passengers who will claim off his policy, i.e. effectively sue him.
But he would still need to declare those claims in the future wouldn't he?

falkster

4,258 posts

227 months

Thursday 19th July 2012
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What an absolute bellend.

Crow555

1,037 posts

218 months

Thursday 19th July 2012
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I could just imagine callcentre staff hearing this s***e day in, day out and not believing a word or it but not being able to do anything about it. I hope the guy that took this call got a lot of satisfaction from flagging up this guy, I know I would.

dredge

197 posts

238 months

Thursday 19th July 2012
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There's a longer version of the clip here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00w7ltt

It goes on to talk about the sentence - twelve months imprisonment, suspended, 200 hours of community service.

(I just noticed it's linked to from the page above. Still, worth a listen.)