Pedestal with pedestrian

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Car substation with a pedestrian.

Auto-casing is a type of scam in which an attacker adjusts the accident as if the victim is the culprit, after which, with the help of intimidation, threats and persuasion, the victim is forced not to contact the traffic police and not to call an insurance agent to assess the damage, but to pay in place and forget about what happened.
Typically, car cages take place on busy and clogged tracks and roads, where the driver’s attention is scattered as much as possible, since he has to observe several neighboring cars at once and assess the traffic situation against the background of heavy traffic.
But the swindlers-frauds are not only shaved guys driving a restored used car, a gang can consist, for example, of a little boy, compassionate grandmother and a boring dad.
Moving around an unfamiliar yard, in an attempt to cut off the path, the driver may feel a sharp blow in the opposite direction from himself. The driver slows down to see what he might stumble upon, and discovers under the wheels a child who has not come from where. The child is unconscious , but in the consciousness of his family, who immediately surrounds the scene, lamenting and blaming the driver for all mortal sins. The child, of course, comes to himself, there is no visible damage on him, but his leg aches, and his head is spinning.
“Dad” starts a conversation about ambulance, that it would not hurt to call Uncle Seryozha, who is just working in the traffic police, and so on ... But then he comes up with a brilliant idea: “Are you in a hurry? Let’s solve everything amicably? "- and now, the driver, with a wide smile on his face, counts out his hard-earned money, and no one cares that the boy is completely healthy, and the blow was imitated by an aimed throw of an ordinary potato.
Another variation of the previous setup is the setup in the parking lot, usually this action takes place in the parking lots of large supermarkets. Trying to park in reverse, the driver feels a blow to the rear of the car, stops, and discovers a child holding his head under the wheels. Again his relatives appear: fathers, mothers, grandmothers, and, in the end, the driver gives the money “for treatment”. By the way, women are more likely to fall victim to a scam, as their pity for the injured child often overshadows common sense.
There is another option: the victim’s car moves at normal speed along an unloaded road, and at that moment a young man is talking on a mobile phone and gesturing to someone on the opposite side of the road. As a law-abiding citizen, the driver of the car slows down, but there is no need to stop completely, as the young man himself stopped, letting the car through. That's it, the preparation for the setup is finished, as soon as the driver passes this guy, the setup itself starts: the guy starts screaming, falls onto the road and grabs his foot, imitating an injury. If the driver does not stop immediately (he might not have noticed), then for sure the one to whom the young man waved his hand will find a car in which they will catch up with the victim, drive them over and make them stop. Then everything is as usual, a banal money scam will begin, while the fraudsters can tell an interesting story, for example, that the injured guy is an athlete, that he has competitions with a cash prize today, and that the guy would surely have won. Why is such a story needed? And the fact that the amount of winnings will be exactly what they will demand as compensation for the injuries caused.
By the way, in the version of the previous scam, fraudsters can connect “witnesses”, and not simple ones, but advanced ones, who at that moment, quite by accident, filmed the carriageway, or some building on the opposite side of the road, and they then they filmed the moment of arrival. Everything will look quite natural on the video, and the grimace of the “victim” will be the most natural.
Protecting yourself from such frauds is even more difficult, since the amount that fraudsters require as compensation is relatively small, a person with an average income can pay, so the presentable look of the victim’s car is not important for substituting here. Actually, you cannot protect yourself from the setup, but this does not mean that you have to part with the money, you just need to behave correctly in such a situation.
First of all, listen to less about what the witnesses and the victim are telling you, try to soberly assess the situation: what was the chance to run over the child, or squeeze someone's leg. Never agree to settle the matter amicably, even if it is not profitable for you to connect the traffic police and the insurance company, still say that you are going to call the traffic police, retire to your car, and close all doors and windows in order to avoid further pressure. If an accident is associated with a health hazard, be sure to say that you will not pay anything until the damage is fixed, and you should choose the clinic or emergency room yourself, preferably the one where you have already been, even if it is on the other side of the city. Usually, seeing such determination, scammers will leave you behind.

 

[Anonymous]

A guy jumps out onto the road, moving “sideways” or with his back to your car. At the same time, he is talking on a cell phone. In fact, the fraudster receives instructions from his partner over the phone on how and which direction to go in order to touch the mirror of your car with your elbow and fall onto the hood from a turn.
On the elbows under the crook's jacket are hockey shields. Therefore, upon contact, the mirror breaks out. And the sound is as if the roof with the door were torn apart.
Then everything happens according to an innocent scenario. The swindler says that he didn’t seem to be hurt, he doesn’t want to call the police. And leaves. But an hour later, the “victim” claims to the police that you (be sure the accomplice of the swindler recorded and, possibly, photographed the incident on his cell phone) disappeared from the place of arrival.
Further, various variants of blackmail and bodily harm compensation are possible. Most often they demand to pay monetary “compensation”. Amount - up to ten thousand cu Otherwise, according to the laws, if the driver ran into a pedestrian (even outside the crossing) and disappeared - a prison.
The traffic police warns that the only way to counteract fraudsters is to be extremely careful and be sure to call the police after the accident. Even if the swindlers have left, you must record the fact of their departure with an official statement.