Ontario Car Insurance Fraud
Sometimes we want to make a few extra bucks, but insurance fraud is taking things a bit too far. In the long run we all end up paying for it. It’s amazing how ingenious human beings can be when the going gets tough. Take for instance the “wave in” method. When the perpetrator waits for someone coming out of a parking lot and waves them ahead into the street. Then bingo, the perpetrator slams into the other vehicle making the victim look guilty. I mean, is it really worth it? A few extra dollars in your pocket to buy what? A new flat screen TV?
The “swoop and squat” is when the perpetrators sandwich the innocent driver. One hits from the rear, the other in front slams on the brakes causing the middle man to run into the front driver. I think this type of insurance fraud should be called something else like “three-car-Monte”.
You would think if organized crime is involved in these insurance scams they would have something better to do. But then of course, business is business. It’s a field day on us innocent drivers, out for a day of shopping, visiting or on holiday listening to your favorite tune on the radio. Then wham, you’re the target of the well, “target and bullet scam”. That’s when the insurance scammers run right into you. It’s astounding no one has come up with the invention of rubber cars. But who knows “necessity is the mother of invention”.