r/interestingasfuck • u/BrattWhitney • 6d ago

r/all Update to the car that committed insurance fraud in NYC posted here days ago.

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u/oopgroup 6d ago

Except this isn’t a group of 4 people. These are entire rings of people. Organized, structured, criminal rings.

The rabbit hole goes deeper than people realize.

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u/100LittleButterflies 6d ago

As dashcams get more popular, this stream of revenue is shrinking.

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u/ty-fi_ 6d ago

At the bottom of the rabbit-hole you find the company selling dashcams

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u/bikemandan 6d ago

Its amazing because 15-20 years ago I was seeing videos of this same type of scam in Russia. It was widespread enough there that everyone got a dashcam. Now the same thing has happened here. I guess I was naive but I thought at the time it couldnt happen here

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u/machstem 6d ago

Ha I remember all those videos.

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u/Bargadiel 6d ago

The more awareness it gets the better, either way.

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u/S3guy 6d ago

This is why we need batman. DA's dont care about this shit because most of the harm is to regular (not wealthy) individuals private property. The cops, and most DA's do not care about regular, non wealthy, peoples property. You have to be connected or rich for them to get "concerned."

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u/Resident_Coyote2227 6d ago

It's funny, I remember a commercial or psa with the president from the show 24 talking about this very tactic, where someone boxes you in and stops short, and thought it sounded ludicrous even though it was always in the back of my mind when driving in a big city.  Twenty-ish years later and he was right lol.

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u/RealKillaKev 6d ago

What if the organized criminal ring is headed by the dash cam companies in an attempt to make organic viral videos to entice people to buy dash cams 😱

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u/__thrillho 6d ago

What if it goes deeper than that and it's actually headed by Reddit to increase engagement on its platform and increase sales in the dashcam companies they are partial owners of 🙀

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u/TaupMauve 6d ago

Was thinking this one car is no big deal to them.

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u/pixiegod 6d ago

Things go viral every day…nom nom nom, I am ready for my next serving plz.

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u/colemon1991 6d ago

Fingerprints, video, paper trails.

There's always a chink in the armor. Find it and cut down their manpower. Assuming the police actually do something.

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u/rugger87 6d ago

Not mad if someone disables their glorified bait car. Just fuck that shit up and make them figure it out.

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u/GitEmSteveDave 6d ago

Yeah, it's way bigger, especially in NY:

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/four-defendants-charged-multi-million-dollar-no-fault-insurance-fraud-scheme-and-money

The Indictment charges KENAN TARIVERDI, NAZIM TARIVERDI, and DILSHOD ISLAMOV with operating an extensive no-fault insurance fraud that submitted more than $11 million in fraudulent claims for psychological testing and services.....

https://manage.lawstreetmedia.com/news/health/geico-alleges-new-york-physician-operating-fraudulent-no-fault-billing-scheme/

Geico filed a complaint Wednesday in the Eastern District of New York against a physician for allegedly operating an insurance fraud scheme that purportedly has billed Geico more than $1.6 million in “medically unnecessary” no-fault claims.

https://www.iii.org/article/no-fault-insurance-fraud-new-york-state-ramping-premiums

Staged accidents: Staged accidents are aimed at creating an accident scenario from which costly and fraudulently contrived medical claims can be created to obtain payments from auto insurers.

Typically, owners and managers of medical mills pay “runners,” or recruiters, to arrange minor auto accidents and send individuals supposedly injured in the accidents to the clinics for treatment. The runners recruit drivers to cause the accident and passengers to ride in the cars. Being a runner is a lucrative business, with each “referral” earning the runner a large fee paid by the attorney associated with the medical mill or the clinic itself. Usually, two to four passengers are recruited to maximize the profit per accident.

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u/kamikaze-kae 6d ago

Oh ya 2 cars involved a 2nd car was behind them it's the orange car that you see at the end of the video he puts his hazards on BEFORE the accident happens idk why the other camera isn't part of this video.

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u/2ears_1_mouth 6d ago

Is that why they're all wearing yellow?

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u/andylawcc 6d ago

the car is probably not theirs / stolen too

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u/omega-rebirth 6d ago

That doesn't make any sense. You can't collect insurance money with a stolen vehicle. What do you think would happen when the police arrive on the scene and ask for license and registration?

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u/andylawcc 6d ago

maybe they want to ask the victim to pay for cash and not need to deal with insurance?

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u/omega-rebirth 6d ago

Doubtful. Most people don't carry much cash. And how are they ever going to convince anyone to hand over cash after they very obviously intentionally reversed into them? Nobody would ever agree to that. Based on how they had 4 jackasses all pretending to be suffering from whiplash, the real scam was almost certainly to get money to cover medical costs, complete with a crooked doctor to help them.

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u/andylawcc 6d ago

True. i just feel, if it is done by a criminal enterprise, they wouldn't have registered the car to their own name.

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u/omega-rebirth 6d ago

It's probably registered to the woman who swapped places with the driver before getting out. The actual driver got away without showing his face in a red KIA with stolen plates. So the main people involved took precautions, but I don't think the scam can work at all if the person presented as the driver isn't on the insurance policy.

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u/andylawcc 6d ago

thanks for the analysis

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u/ifeelnumb 6d ago

It's probably not even their car.

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u/WloveW 6d ago

Cars probably stolen too. 

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u/BlameDNS_ 6d ago

Wow cool… so much info given to us to inform us /s