The Insurance Fraud Bureau (IFB) has identified the top-twenty areas of the UK affected by crash-for-cash scams during the third quarter of 2010.
\nBirmingham, Liverpool, Manchester, London East, Bradford and London North retained their positions as the top six location, followed by Chester, Leeds, Oldham, Blackburn, Luton, Warrington, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Uxbridge, Harrow, Bolton, Ilford and Barking, Wakefield, Sheffield and London North-West.
\nWarrington has moved eight places up the league table, compared with the previous quarter, and Sheffield seven.<\/p>\n
Typically, crash-for-cash scams involve fraudsters driving to busy road junctions and then performing unexpected, unnecessary and dangerous manoeuvres designed to cause innocent members of the public to crash into them.<\/p>\n
According to the Bureau, live IFB and Police operations span all the hotspots identified, with 27 joint Police operations in hand and each operation representing a typical value of \u00a31.7million, or an average 253 claims.<\/p>\n
Since its formation in July 2006, the IFB has been instrumental in helping the Police make over 424 arrests in connection with insurance fraud, resulting in over 98 convictions.<\/p>\n
Last month, a former member of a crash-for-cash gang was ordered to repay \u00a3150,000 under the Proceeds of Crime Act, having already been jailed in 2008 for his involvement in insurance fraud.<\/p>\n
Bradford Crown Court ordered Mohammed Rashid to stump up the money within six months, or face extra time jail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Insurance Fraud Bureau (IFB) has identified the top-twenty areas of the UK affected by crash-for-cash scams during the third…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-car-insurance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sure2insure.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sure2insure.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sure2insure.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sure2insure.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sure2insure.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sure2insure.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sure2insure.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sure2insure.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sure2insure.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}