Documentation: This is what the sting of "pedestrian" accidents looks like
More and more evidence is flowing about a growing phenomenon of crooks staging damage from cars and blackmailing drivers in exchange for not complaining.
Drivers are afraid to get involved and pay hundreds and thousands of shekels
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19/06/2022
Sunday, 19 June 2022, 16:31 Updated: 16:35
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On the Day of Road Accidents (Udi Mizrahi, "News in Time")
Saturday about a week ago, Aluf Sadeh Junction in Ramat Gan.
The driver of a car slows down towards a stop at a red light, when she suddenly notices a young man jumping slowly towards her, bumps lightly into the vehicle, and falls on the road while shouting for help, seemingly groaning in pain.
The frightened driver immediately got out of the vehicle and went to the guy to offer him assistance, and in response, he asked her to help him get up.
While measuring, he advised her to clear the lane and put the vehicle on the side of the road to allow the other vehicles to continue driving.
According to her, within a few seconds he got to his feet and told her that because he was injured, there was no choice but to call the police, but if she wanted it could be avoided.
how?
For a payment of 1,000 shekels, he will give it to her, and everyone will continue on their way.
According to her, she quickly realized that it was a sting and called the police on her own initiative.
The guy managed to escape before the car arrived.
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The said scam attempt is far from a private case, but one example of many kinds of an old phenomenon, which has significantly raised its head over the past year, and has earned the nickname 'Charlie and a Half Sting'.
Over the past few months, more and more videos have been posted on social media taken with cameras installed in vehicles, in which a guy is seen jumping towards a vehicle traveling at a very slow speed, while forging an accident that was not and was not created.
The crook, standing at an intersection and lurking for vehicles, waits for the next sucker to fall into his net.
After the fabricated "accident" happens, the guy takes advantage of the fitness hour during which the driver is under pressure and offers him a tempting offer: to eliminate the need to call the police, which may lead to a summons for questioning and possibly prosecution, for NIS 500-2,000.
The driver who understands that apart from the complication with the police, may also suffer an increase in the price of the compulsory policy due to the reporting of the accident, he gets into a dilemma when in quite a few cases, at the end of the day, he decides to pay the crook.
He will get out of the vehicle and accuse you of an injury that was not and was not created - do not give up (Photo: ShutterStock)
Dozens and maybe hundreds of cases a year.
Adv. Assaf Warsaw (Photo: Regev Kalaf)
"As absurd as it may sound, over the past year we have received quite a number of reports of drivers falling victim to such fraud and paying the money," notes Adv. Assaf Warsaw, co-chair of the Torts Forum at the Israel Bar Association. Insurance Law.
"It is easy to say that 'I would never have fallen for such a scam' but in real time, while the driver is under considerable pressure, the skilled crook manages to deceive him, taking advantage of the mental distress he has encountered."
Alongside this fraudulent method of staging an accident with pedestrians, another phenomenon has recently become common: a driver has been falsely accused of driving behind the vehicle, claiming to have hit the rear of the vehicle 'in a rear-end accident', although in practice there was no contact between the two vehicles.
How common are the symptoms?
The Torts Forum notes that in their estimation, there are many dozens of cases a year, perhaps even several hundred.
According to them, there are also quite a few cases in which it is not a lone crook, but an organized gang that operates in the following method: Which is the one that caused the accident, causing a great commotion around and emphasizing that they are witnessing a car accident.
They later cooperate with the crook who demands quite a bit of money from the driver in exchange for not involving the police.
How to identify crooks?
A moment after the injury, they will stand up and offer a "deal" that will save you unnecessary entanglement (Photo: ShutterStock)
The exercise, not only takes place in the central area and recently also in the Haifa area there have been some remarkably similar cases.
One of the drivers who reported an extortion attempt to the police described: "I was driving slowly towards my son's garden. Suddenly a 50-year-old man fell in front of my vehicle and shouted that he was injured. "I went out and shouted at him to take an azimuth from my face and fly to a thousand hells.
Advocate Warsaw points out that the best way to fend off an accident is, of course, by installing a camera inside the vehicle that records what is happening in its surroundings. It is serious to move the vehicle, so that in any case, a driver who accepts such an offer is not only a sucker, but also a criminal. Often, it is possible to locate a camera of a nearby business or a municipal camera that has been placed nearby and in no way be tempted to such "transactions".
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