BB.com Misc Refugee Thread

  • Guest, it's time once again for the massively important and exciting FoH Asshat Tournament!



    Go here and give us your nominations!
    Who's been the biggest Asshat in the last year? Give us your worst ones!

Il_Duce Lightning Lord Rule

Lightning Fast
<Charitable Administrator>
11,086
58,283
Any updates on the NY crash scammers that have been posted here a few times?
I heard their scheme...

Hit a bump in the road.
giphy.gif
 
  • 5Worf
  • 1Rimshot
  • 1Cringe
Reactions: 6 users

gwg77

TRUMP 2024
1,066
6,412
Any updates on the NY crash scammers that have been posted here a few times?

Yes! NYPD are looking into it.

1729809109998.png



The NYPD is investigating the disturbing staged accident on the Belt Parkway that went viral on TikTok — as experts said such insurance scams are on the rise in New York because fraudsters are “getting away with it.”

A police spokesperson said Tuesday that detectives have interviewed victim Ashpia Natasha about the Oct. 16 caught-on-dashcam crash, in which another driver reversed into her front bumper on the busy Queens highway just before several passengers spilled out and tried to claim they were hurt.

“The investigation remains ongoing by the NYPD Criminal Enterprise Investigation Unit’s Fraudulent Collision Investigation Squad,” a department spokesperson said in a brief statement.

Unfortunately, cases like Natasha’s are becoming more and more common as brazen crooks search for scams to run on unsuspecting victims — even old-school schemes like cutting someone off, slamming on the brakes and then squeezing them for insurance money afterward.

“It’s an ongoing trend, and the fraudsters are getting away with it,” Mark Friedlander, spokesperson for the Insurance Information Institute, a nonprofit trade organization, told The Post on Tuesday.

“They’re able to cash in on these schemes, and until they’re caught and put behind bars, the schemes are not going to slow down.”

Friedlander said staged accidents like the one on the Belt Parkway cost insurers about $20 billion every year — and raise the rates for everyone else.

They’re most common in heavily congested areas like California, which saw 5,366 staged crashes in 2023, and New York, which came in second last year with 1,729 such “accidents,” he said.

Those numbers are rising, especially in the New York metro area: The Empire State saw a 14% increase from 2022 to 2023, Friedlander said, while New Jersey saw a 58% increase, from 158 in 2022 to 250 in 2023.

 
  • 5Like
Reactions: 4 users

Lanx

<Prior Amod>
65,962
150,305
love how social media will unite for petty shit but won't do shit for kidnappings
have you seen the ones where they do to catch a predator

theyre gonna goto jail soon, they confront the pedo, which is fine, but then they get so mad they assault the pedo

like why? now the pedo has a defense, but it was worth it for the gram
 
  • 1Like
Reactions: 1 user