New Security Risk: Car Identity Theft
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We've all heard about personal identity theft. But did you know that cars frequently meet the same fate? Of course cars themselves don't really suffer. The misfortune falls upon the owners, who are often clueless about their car's shady past. That is exactly what happened to Toni McKnight when she learned that her recently bought pre-owned Mitsubishi Eclipse was in fact stolen. This type of auto larceny is becoming increasingly widespread and is known in the law enforcement circles as "cloning."
SSK. Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain.
I take it you know this Toni McKnight?
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We've all heard about personal identity theft. But did you know that cars frequently meet the same fate? Of course cars themselves don't really suffer. The misfortune falls upon the owners, who are often clueless about their car's shady past. That is exactly what happened to Toni McKnight when she learned that her recently bought pre-owned Mitsubishi Eclipse was in fact stolen. This type of auto larceny is becoming increasingly widespread and is known in the law enforcement circles as "cloning."
SSK. Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain.
If your memory works more than a few months in the past, you'd recall this is one of the two offenses that were responsible for so many people trying to hound you off the forum.
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We've all heard about personal identity theft. But did you know that cars frequently meet the same fate? Of course cars themselves don't really suffer. The misfortune falls upon the owners, who are often clueless about their car's shady past. That is exactly what happened to Toni McKnight when she learned that her recently bought pre-owned Mitsubishi Eclipse was in fact stolen. This type of auto larceny is becoming increasingly widespread and is known in the law enforcement circles as "cloning."
SSK. Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain.
I bet some copyright infringment lawyer would just love you.
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We've all heard about personal identity theft. But did you know that cars frequently meet the same fate? Of course cars themselves don't really suffer. The misfortune falls upon the owners, who are often clueless about their car's shady past. That is exactly what happened to Toni McKnight when she learned that her recently bought pre-owned Mitsubishi Eclipse was in fact stolen. This type of auto larceny is becoming increasingly widespread and is known in the law enforcement circles as "cloning."
SSK. Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain.
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We've all heard about personal identity theft. But did you know that cars frequently meet the same fate? Of course cars themselves don't really suffer. The misfortune falls upon the owners, who are often clueless about their car's shady past. That is exactly what happened to Toni McKnight when she learned that her recently bought pre-owned Mitsubishi Eclipse was in fact stolen. This type of auto larceny is becoming increasingly widespread and is known in the law enforcement circles as "cloning."
SSK. Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain.
Because it pisses people off! Also, stop answering questions in the regular forums with whatever comes to mind - if you have the answer, fine, but if not keep your trap shut!
"On one of my cards it said I had to find temperatures lower than -8. The numbers I uncovered were -6 and -7 so I thought I had won, and so did the woman in the shop. But when she scanned the card the machine said I hadn't. "I phoned Camelot and they fobbed me off with some story that -6 is higher - not lower - than -8 but I'm not having it." -Tina Farrell, a 23 year old thicky from Levenshulme, Manchester.
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We've all heard about personal identity theft. But did you know that cars frequently meet the same fate? Of course cars themselves don't really suffer. The misfortune falls upon the owners, who are often clueless about their car's shady past. That is exactly what happened to Toni McKnight when she learned that her recently bought pre-owned Mitsubishi Eclipse was in fact stolen. This type of auto larceny is becoming increasingly widespread and is known in the law enforcement circles as "cloning."
SSK. Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain.
What's wrong with you, Satips??? People tell you all the time to provide links to the original articles... Are you cretinous or something?
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We've all heard about personal identity theft. But did you know that cars frequently meet the same fate? Of course cars themselves don't really suffer. The misfortune falls upon the owners, who are often clueless about their car's shady past. That is exactly what happened to Toni McKnight when she learned that her recently bought pre-owned Mitsubishi Eclipse was in fact stolen. This type of auto larceny is becoming increasingly widespread and is known in the law enforcement circles as "cloning."
SSK. Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain.
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We've all heard about personal identity theft. But did you know that cars frequently meet the same fate? Of course cars themselves don't really suffer. The misfortune falls upon the owners, who are often clueless about their car's shady past. That is exactly what happened to Toni McKnight when she learned that her recently bought pre-owned Mitsubishi Eclipse was in fact stolen. This type of auto larceny is becoming increasingly widespread and is known in the law enforcement circles as "cloning."
SSK. Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain.
Vri SSK wrote:
This type of auto larceny is becoming increasingly widespread and is known in the law enforcement circles as "cloning."
This type of thing has been going on for years in a few variants and is called all kinds of things. The best way is to buy a wrecked car from a scrap yard, then steal an identical one. You transfer over all the VIN plates, chassis numbers, engine if possible, or you restamp the stolen engine with the scraped ones number and the number plates. If done correctly you end up with a 100% legitimte car. What is called cloning is the crudest method. You steal a car, and get some new plates made up copying the registration number from an identical car. You have a car that wont attract any attention from the police, but has no resale value as anyone can easially see the chassis number isnt correct.
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We've all heard about personal identity theft. But did you know that cars frequently meet the same fate? Of course cars themselves don't really suffer. The misfortune falls upon the owners, who are often clueless about their car's shady past. That is exactly what happened to Toni McKnight when she learned that her recently bought pre-owned Mitsubishi Eclipse was in fact stolen. This type of auto larceny is becoming increasingly widespread and is known in the law enforcement circles as "cloning."
SSK. Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain.
simular thing happend to me couple years back. it wasn't my car that was stolen but thiefs stole my (legitimate) license plats in the middle of the night. put them onto another car (simular one) and used that car too robe a bank. I get a visit in the middle of the night by the cops asking me where my car is (while it was standing in plain sight (they actually had to lean over it to press the doorbell)). fortunatly they were smart enough to realise it wasn't the same car (the robbers used there car to ram the window of the bank so it was damaged, mine wasn't) but still not a very pleasend event to be experiancing in the middle of the night
If my help was helpfull let me know, if not let me know why. The only way we learn is by making mistakes.
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simular thing happend to me couple years back. it wasn't my car that was stolen but thiefs stole my (legitimate) license plats in the middle of the night. put them onto another car (simular one) and used that car too robe a bank. I get a visit in the middle of the night by the cops asking me where my car is (while it was standing in plain sight (they actually had to lean over it to press the doorbell)). fortunatly they were smart enough to realise it wasn't the same car (the robbers used there car to ram the window of the bank so it was damaged, mine wasn't) but still not a very pleasend event to be experiancing in the middle of the night
If my help was helpfull let me know, if not let me know why. The only way we learn is by making mistakes.
TDDragon wrote:
I get a visit in the middle of the night by the cops asking me where my car is (while it was standing in plain sight (they actually had to lean over it to press the doorbell))
The irony! :laugh: :doh:
TDDragon wrote:
fortunatly they were smart enough to realise it wasn't the same car (the robbers used there car to ram the window of the bank so it was damaged, mine wasn't)
Given your first statement, I'm surprised they were smart enough to realize that. :-D
Cheers, Vikram.
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