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Pssst: Wanna (not) Buy a Stolen Car?

Friday, July 17th, 2009

You buy a used car – cash – from someone who you met in the bar, and you, in a dark alley to show you the car? Unlikely. What is a well-dressed, friendly, middle-aged, man or woman who is an advertisement in a local newspaper that you answered lunch in the restaurant of your choice?

<b> Oops! </ B> May, you are most likely to be cheated by seller number two. It is the story of Jennifer Warwa who bought a van and has his mechanic check. The mechanic later said how it was shocked that Jennifer was betrayed:

“Then I met the man who was selling the vehicle. Very clean cut. In the Fifties. Very soft spoken …. And he went with her to control. There is no evidence, just the kind of person it was, “said the mechanic CBC Marketplace.

Some months later, Jennifer received a call from the police. You have said that they had a mini-stolen, and they came to collect. She was so angry that she has tried to police vans. Finally, they have with her, and she began to money for a year and six months for a bank loan of 5000 $ on a van, she could not perform. <b> Ouch! </ B>

Jennifer was a victim in the chain, of which the first owner, the insurance company, consumers, insurance rates continue to rise, and the police, who give thousands of hours of observation flights. According to the FBI a vehicle is stolen every 25 seconds in the U.S. in the amount of 8 billion U.S. dollars per year problem.

So often these frauds. Thieves set up cars for their value, their resale prices in whole or in part, or because they are easy to fly. Years ago, most cars were introduced to the rooms, including unusual parts such as airbags. But today some thieves are so Saracen they sell cars through newspapers.

This new scam is called “cloning WINE” because the vehicle identification number to another stolen car. NIV Criminals get it off the scoreboard of vehicles in parking lots – even for traders. Some even go up to remove the plate NIV automotive manufacturer in the construction sites for the restoration, with which customers “gather your own parties.” (It does not mean that literally!) The wrong number is used to create new documents or the property forged documents. Anyway, it allows WINE cloned, stolen cars into pseudo-legal vehicles, which officially titled and sold. Many thieves on the state of the lines work: the cars are stolen in May from the east, in the Mid-West, then sold in California. Scary!

<b> What you can do in order to buy a stolen car: </ b>

** In the NIV on the dashboard VIN against the height of the driver’s door under the hood, and the

** NIV use to the car’s history to carfax.com for about $ 20

** Job titles and documents for the registration of the name and address of the seller

** Is the car from outside the state?

** Be careful when you become a seller in a parking lot. Better to ensure that they live on which the vehicle is

** If the vehicle was recently transferred?

** If the seller of a house or use the phone at work or just in a cell?

** If the purchase price less odd?

** Please note that some vehicles at the dealers defrauded also

** Payment by check or certified money order, no money.

Remember that most individuals are not thieves, but honest, normal people like you. And the prices are rather low with the private sale. So, if you think you will improve your chance to hunt with a “real” second-hand vehicle.