Car owners often become victims of not only accidents, but also fraudsters. Even sitting in your car, you cannot feel safe. After all, easy money hunters consider drivers to be lucrative sacrifices. After all, those always have bags with documents with them, and therefore with money. Beginners can be easily intimidated by provoking a minor accident, and reckless drivers can be robbed.
Instructions
Step 1
The most common form of road fraud is car fraud. This jargon denotes imaginary or minor accidents that provoke one, often two cars. Let's consider the most popular cases. Let's say that you are driving in the leftmost lane and a car is catching up with you, which starts blinking its headlights, keeps close to you, provoking you to quickly give way and change to the next lane. And in the next lane, the accomplice's car is driving, which is kept in the dead zone. As soon as the driven car starts to rebuild, it will accelerate sharply, and the car can touch it tangentially. Yes, your fault here will be obvious. But the driver of the dummy car is not interested in calling the traffic police, but in making you pay on the spot for possible damage by any means. Threats, physical violence, intimidation are used.
Step 2
Roughly the same scenario can arise if, for no apparent reason, you suddenly hear a sharp knock on the side of the car, and then the car cuts you off with a demand to stop. When you go out to find out what the matter is, they will tell you that you hit the car and even show scratches. And these scratches are imperceptibly made with sandpaper on your car while you inspect someone else's.
Step 3
In all these situations, call the traffic police. Call yourself, and do not trust the allegedly injured party. Do not enter into any negotiations or disputes with these people. As a rule, there are several people in this car and any scandals can escalate into a fight. Get in the car, close the locks and do not get out of it under any pretext. After waiting a couple of minutes, the scammers will prefer to leave, rather than wait for the patrol service and subsequent proceedings. Write down the number of the car and give it to the traffic police inspectors.
Step 4
Install DVR with front and rear cameras. The device records everything that happens, and in a disputable case, you can use the recordings from cameras even in court. And fraudsters are trying to bypass cars equipped with video recorders.
Step 5
Protect yourself from theft. They happen even when the driver is in the car. Do not put your bag in the back and front seats. Better to lay it down on the rug so that it cannot be seen from the street. If the bag is in the front seat, wrap the handle over the parking brake. After all, breaking glass and grabbing things is a matter of minutes.
Step 6
Always close the central locking system as soon as you get into the car. Establish a rule: first close the locks, then start the car. Do not open locks or glass if someone from the street wants to ask something. If this is something important (for example, the wheel is lowered), they will show you with gestures and you will understand everything. In other cases, think about your safety, and not about the fact that someone needs to be shown the way.
Step 7
Fraudsters often distract the driver when he is just getting into the car. Women often put their purses on the seat first. If at this moment you are distracted by conversation, the fraudster will easily commit theft by opening the next door.
Step 8
When approaching the car, always look around. If there are suspicious people on the street or in a car parked nearby, do not rush to open your car. Take the time or make it clear that you noticed them. Always remove the car from the alarm, coming close, and immediately sit down.
