Car cloning can victimize Those Buying Cars After Bankruptcy

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

You have been tempted by the e-mail (we all have, at least for a second) to cash a comma laden check for a desperate soon-to-be-millionaire in Tanzania and you have probably clicked on the search engine pop-up promising to make you $10,000 per month from home for only five minutes worth of work per week. Basically, when the economy slows down, scam artists kick it into high gear.

Now, amidst the hubbub of the federal government’s Cash for Clunkers program, which will eventually flood the market with more used cars, the number of stolen cars being resold through legitimate dealers is on the rise.…