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Suspects allegedly dressed up as bears to carry out fake attacks on cars as part of an insurance scam. Upon further scrutiny of the video, an investigation determined the bear was a person in a ...
Once upon a time in Southern California, a person wore a bear costume to damage luxury cars so friends could allegedly cash in on hefty insurance payouts.
Four people are accused of using footage of a fake bear damaging luxury cars to file false insurance claims in California.
Similar video was provided of the “bear” inside the Mercedes vehicles. It was not immediately known if the four people arrested had attorneys. The department had a biologist from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife review the three videos, who concluded it was “clearly a human in a bear suit,” the insurance department said.
The company viewing video of the Rolls-Royce suspected that it was not a bear inside, but someone in a bear costume. Detectives found two additional claims and with two different insurance companies for the four with the same date of loss and at the same location. Similar video was provided of the “bear” inside the Mercedes vehicles.
The miracle cars scam was an advance-fee scam run from 1997 to 2002 by Californians James R. Nichols and Robert Gomez. In its run of just over four years, over 4,000 people bought 7,000 cars that did not exist, netting over US$ 21 million from the victims.
Similar to the claim that originally drew the unit's attention, the two other reports stated that a bear had attacked their cars: a 2015 Mercedes G63 AMG and a 2022 Mercedes E350, according to the ...
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