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[BlueZ4AZ]

Originally Posted by TarqZ4

The issue is if they are going to clone a car why make it easy – they do clone cars – thousands are stolen in the UK every year and are never recovered, they don’t all go abroad. So they have the stolen car sitting in the lock up awaiting a new identity, they either have to walk around looking for an identical spec car or spend a few minutes on the internet, this is a no brainer.

Makes sense.

[Toodeep]

Originally Posted by lux good

So what stops people getting your car reg. when they see it on a road!!??

I think juhap's point is that a lot of information is revealed on forums. Revealing personal stuff and information about modifications is like an online inventory for criminals but also . . . . If I were an insurer, for example, I'd be very interested in the performance upgrades I've not been informed about or the fact the apparently low-risk married, suburban 50 year-old in my records enjoys taking on Porsches at the traffic-light grand prix. Also, all you guys adding flash upgrades who remove them prior to workshop visiits yet openly show your registration details are, perhaps, being a little indiscrete. If I'm BMW, I'm reading these forums and taking note of all the Juice Box and Vishnu customers for when they come in with their warranty claims.

[TarqZ4]

Originally Posted by Toodeep

I think juhap's point is that a lot of information is revealed on forums. Revealing personal stuff and information about modifications is like an online inventory for criminals but also . . . . If I were an insurer, for example, I'd be very interested in the performance upgrades I've not been informed about or the fact the apparently low-risk married, suburban 50 year-old in my records enjoys taking on Porsches at the traffic-light grand prix. Also, all you guys adding flash upgrades who remove them prior to workshop visiits yet openly show your registration details are, perhaps, being a little indiscrete. If I'm BMW, I'm reading these forums and taking note of all the Juice Box and Vishnu customers for when they come in with their warranty claims.

Spot on

[juhap]

Originally Posted by Toodeep

If I were an insurer, for example, I'd be very interested in the performance upgrades I've not been informed about or the fact the apparently low-risk married, suburban 50 year-old in my records enjoys taking on Porsches at the traffic-light grand prix.

There are insurance agencies with dedicated servers that crawl and index content from various web sites for the purpose of detecting potential insurance fraud attempts (among other things). For example, if someone claims their car got stolen or caught fire, the agency can immediately see if he's been trying to sell his car on-line right before the incident. Obviously even if he has, it doesn't prove anything, but it will warrant a closer look.

And no, I'm not making this up. I sell systems like this for a living