Taxi driver insurance scam

[*_ash_*]

8 minutes ago, Preppershtfs said:

Phv

It cannot be a Sheffield one then.

 

54 plate is years and years too old! So probably not a taxi driver either  (might be an OOT, but even then not many council allow 54 plates)

 

I couldn't give you the oldest possible plate in sheffield as it changed in recent years. We used to be able to run them for 7 years, now 9 years.

 

Given this info, what made you think it was a taxi?

 

 

 

edit*OOT is out of towners

[choogling]

a pal of mine used to run a taxi as a family car, with a disabled wife to run around it was ideal, but he was all ways getting flagged down in spite of the car being a very old  fx model.

[*_ash_*]

17 minutes ago, choogling said:

a pal of mine used to run a taxi as a family car, with a disabled wife to run around it was ideal, but he was all ways getting flagged down in spite of the car being a very old  fx model.

More should do this. Modern wheelchair vehicles are very expensive. Old cabs just end up as scrap, when they are perfectly reasonable to transporting own family members who are confined to chairs.

 

(I'm sure someone will say old cabs are old smelly diesels, and they'd be almost right, as not all of them are wrecks. Some of the old nissan engines will go on for ever, and most cabs are well maintained by their owners, so plenty of decent ones are scrapped.

 

 

Edited December 4, 2018 by *_ash_*

[Resident]

7 hours ago, Top Cats Hat said:

I saw a thing on the BBC called 'Claimed and Shamed' recently which looked at insurance fraud and used real recorded phone conversations between insurance companies and claimants.

 

What came across clearly was how very stupid many insurance fraudsters are.

If you are going to make a hooky insurance claim, at least make sure you understand how the world works before submitting your claim! 

I watch the same program, there have been some real doozys on there

[phil752]

On 12/2/2018 at 8:46 PM, Preppershtfs said:

I became aware of a new scam nocking

Around..

As I was driving in city centre and s9 postcode.

As I was on main road a taxi driver refused me to over take him on a duel carriage way and kept on swerving in front of me as I went behind  him and kept my distance from him  he then braked hard in order for me to go in back of him and put in a claim.

Later I found out from a taxi driver friend

If they've got a old car say 54 plate or in that year age they need to get a new taxi in order to carry on with work and older cars are not allowed on road due to condition of the car...

Please be careful out there 

 

PEACE

people need dash cams: not an advert lol

[Cyclone]

18 hours ago, Top Cats Hat said:

I saw a thing on the BBC called 'Claimed and Shamed' recently which looked at insurance fraud and used real recorded phone conversations between insurance companies and claimants.

 

What came across clearly was how very stupid many insurance fraudsters are.

If you are going to make a hooky insurance claim, at least make sure you understand how the world works before submitting your claim! 

Obviously they'd only show the stupid ones on TV, and in the case of the clever ones who get away with it, well, they wouldn't have been able to prove it was fraud at all.

 

So, I was going to say, perhaps only stupid people commit insurance fraud, but in reality, they're just more likely to be the ones who get caught.

13 hours ago, Preppershtfs said:

It was a taxi driver 

Taxi driver, but not driving a taxi?

 

I'm confused, it seems like the car was too old to be a PHV taxi.  And it's definitely not possible to identify taxi drivers just by looking at them!

[boringal]

I find this really hard to believe,

a taxi driver doing something dishonest, who would believe that