INSURANCE FRAUD PWNS J00 AND I

fatbaby

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Bob, Rob, and Tom drive around looking for a target - usually an older man driving a luxury car which is probably covered by an expensive insurance policy...So they find some old man driving a benz and pull alongside him. All of a sudden, bob accelerates, swerves in front of the benz, and slams on the brakes, causing the driver to rear end bob's car. The trio angrrily confronts the old man and complain of neck pains. Voila, lawsuit for car damage and medical expenses.

Jim is about to pull his new car out of a parking spot. He sees a man in a beatup car driving down the isle who stops and waves, indicating that he's gonna let him back out. As Jim backs out, the man t-bones Jims car and jumps out, complaining to jim on how he obstructed his right of way. He claims he was just swatting a fly.

Bills car lease is about to expire soon and he has put a few extra thousand miles on it. He knows the penalty is gonna be steep so he has the car stripped and crushed. He tells his insurance company that it was stolen. ++grasshopper points to him.
 

Linux23

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yeah, I know someone who had his car stripped when he didn't want to pay the extra money for his lease.
 

conjur

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Heard on the news last week that, in Chicago, scammers are picking up homeless men off the street, breaking their arm or leg (or both) and putting them in a car and causing an accident and then telling the other person's insurance they want to settle quickly.

They just dump the homeless guy off someplace and collect.
 

Evadman

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Originally posted by: conjur
Heard on the news last week that, in Chicago, scammers are picking up homeless men off the street, breaking their arm or leg (or both) and putting them in a car and causing an accident and then telling the other person's insurance they want to settle quickly.

They just dump the homeless guy off someplace and collect.

If only they used Daily for that.

/me smashes Daily in the face with a lead pipe.
 

tcsenter

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Nope these are actually pretty old scams. Oldies but goodies.

There was an hour long documentary slash investigative type report on fraud televised on one of the cable channels.

Anyhoo, mostly dealt with insurance fraud; car accidents, car thefts, worker's compensation, disability, etc. Its beyond belief, beyond comprehension, the amount of fraud that is perpetrated in this country. The problem is so enormous that an army of insurance investigators and police fraud units can't even keep up. They're just putting a dent in the actual amount of fraud that goes on. Tip O' the Ice Burg.

Showed one woman who was supposed to be disabled and receiving disability payments. They caught her mud wrestling, of all things! :confused:
 

AvesPKS

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Originally posted by: Evadman
Originally posted by: conjur
Heard on the news last week that, in Chicago, scammers are picking up homeless men off the street, breaking their arm or leg (or both) and putting them in a car and causing an accident and then telling the other person's insurance they want to settle quickly.

They just dump the homeless guy off someplace and collect.

If only they used Daily for that.

/me smashes Daily in the face with a lead pipe.

Who's Daily? Or do you mean Daley?