The scams often involve fraudsters slamming on their brakes at busy junctions
The Insurance Fraud Bureau is warning that crash for cash gangs are spreading out and targeting people in towns, and even rural villages.
Sometimes, the scam is carried out with an accomplice in a second vehicle. The second vehicle will drive erratically in front, so they can divert the victim’s suspicions by saying the driver in front, who fled the scene, caused the accident. The IFB identified Frome in Somerset, Worksop in Nottinghamshire, Cirencester in Gloucestershire, Milton Keynes in Buckinghamshire, Nottingham in Nottinghamshire, Shrewsbury in Shropshire, Warrington in Cheshire, Ashby and Leicester in Leicestershire, and Derby in Derbyshire as being among the areas targeted by gangs in the past 12 months.There is also evidence to suggest gangs are targeting rural villages with the dangerous tactic, it said.
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