Driving/insurance fraud scam. Scammer suddenly stops then puts car in reverse

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A driving insurance fraud scam caught on a potential victims dash cam. The criminals stopped their car suddenly then start reverse to make it appear they hit them. Apparently pos criminals saw the dash cam and probably have backed off.

Chaotic footage shows suspected fraudsters reverse into car, fake injuries before noticing dashcam on NYC’s Belt Parkway

Victim called police but said they don't do accidents.

But having things like a dash cam helped. And when driving always maintain a safe and/or generous stopping distance and leave yourself an out.

Fraudsters/scammers are some of ooziest criminals out there
 

Glad the victims had a dash cam but ...police don't do accidents???? What the heck?


I was hit by a semi in reverse once. Super scary. We were stopped at a left turn light and there was a gas station on the left with an entrance close to the light. Since I was stopped behind the semi, the driver couldn't see me in his side mirrors and decided to back up to go to the gas station. Talk about freaking out...I was when he started reversing.

An employee of the gas station ran out to tell me she saw what happened and would back me when the police got there. Turns out she didn't have to because the driver was super nice and jumped out apologizing and asking if I was okay as soon as he realized he hit me. He told me he couldn't believe how calm I was about it but I said that kind of thing just happens. It was 98 F ambient temp in Mississippi and I told him that had he knocked out my AC or we'd had to stand there waiting for a wrecker (my car was still drivable thankfully!) I might have been very grumpy.

I felt bad for him. He'd been driving for nearly 25 years and that was his first accident. Doubt it dinged him with his employer too much because the damage was minor considering I was in a small car.
 

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It probably isn't always true, but they might be less likely to target the likes of me, in an older small sedan. That car with the cam looked big and newer. But this is egregious. And that girl running in front of the car, how fake that was.
 
Remy said:
It probably isn't always true, but they might be less likely to target the likes of me, in an older small sedan. That car with the cam looked big and newer. But this is egregious. And that girl running in front of the car, how fake that was.
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Exactly they know it's probably fully insured. Unless a person owns it a lease or loan require full coverage.
 
That was happening a lot in Detroit in the mid 70's, mostly on the off-ramps of the highways. A car would stop at the top of an off-ramp and when the car behind them would stop, they'd put their car in reverse and lightly back into them.

When the driver of the second car got out of his car, the occupants of the first car would swarm out, beat him up, and rob him, taking his car too.

Great cries of distress were heard that more cops were needed to patrol the highways, but the state of Michigan and Detroit always responded with "not enough money!" That was fine until the son of the Lieutenant Governor (or some other high-ranking official, I can't remember exactly) got mugged in this scheme and then all of a sudden, money was found to hire 100 extra patrolmen. Wow, what a coincidence! As my dad used to say, "It just depends on whose ox is being gored...."
 
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