Thread: The cost of fines

Originally Posted by UncleHo

You are correct there, but if you go to sell a vehicle to a yard, they will sight the rego papers and then do a revs/vehicle encumberence check and to what finance co. before offering you a price.

Scam going on here in the UK at the moment involves a car being purchased on a stolen credit card. Takes a couple of days for the card company to cancel sale. During this period the clean title car is sold on. If you do a check title on the car is also clean as the dealer had checked this before stocking for sale. Dealer will recover the car as title never passed due to fraud. All those further down the chain lose out.

Another one also us using a stolen credit card involves where the seller is a private sale and has finance outstanding. The buyer of course wants to be sure the finance is cleared so they say will pay the finance and the esker the difference between sale price and finance outstanding. Have the seller call the finance company and obtain payout figure then taken the phone and make the payment to clear the loan while you are listening. Hand phone back to the seller who can check to make sure is cleared. All is fine and new owner drives off in car. A few days later the card payment is found to be a fraud and so cancelled. Seller no longer has car and still owes for finance.

Originally Posted by jimr1

As no rego sticker seems to be going national , I wonder what the cost component is to have stickers , as not have them . Someone must think there are savings , I wonder how much ? Plus the cost of all the cameras in the police cars , plus upkeep , then the IT infrastructure . That wouldn't be cheep , I don't suppose we will ever know that one .

The Transport department didn't know how many unregistered vehicles were on the road prior to the no sticker being introduced. Asked the question and just got a blank stare. "Department is about revenue" was their motto ; forgot that regulating the road was the role. Didn't even know how to get proxy number from police. (Policing role is mainly outsourced to Police department; scalies are main exception).