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Odometer fraud, also referred to as "busting miles" (United States) or "clocking" (UK, Ireland and Canada), is the illegal practice of rolling back odometers to make it appear that vehicles have lower mileage than they actually do. Odometer fraud occurs when the seller of a vehicle falsely represents the actual mileage of a vehicle to the buyer.
The Federal Odometer Act, passed in 1972, modified the United States Code to prohibit tampering with a motor vehicle's odometer and to provide safeguards to protect purchasers in the sale of motor vehicles with altered or reset odometers. [1] The Act provides definitions and civil and criminal penalties for odometer fraud.
A form of fraud is to tamper with the reading on an odometer and presenting the incorrect number of miles/kilometres traveled to a prospective buyer; this is often referred to as "clocking" in the UK and "busting miles" in the US. This is done to make a car appear to have been driven less than it really has been, and thus increase its apparent ...
Odometer is an instrument used for measuring the distance travelled by a vehicle. Odometer may also refer to: Odometer fraud, the illegal practice of rolling back odometers to make it appear that vehicles have lower mileage than they actually do. Markov odometer, a certain type of dynamical system
Schmuck v. United States, 489 U.S. 705 (1989), is a United States Supreme Court decision on criminal law and procedure.By a 5–4 margin it upheld the mail fraud conviction of an Illinois man and resolved a conflict among the appellate circuits over which test to use to determine if a defendant was entitled to a jury instruction allowing conviction on a lesser included charge.
Odometer fraud is a federal crime under the Federal Odometer Act. [13] See also. Politics portal; United States portal; Public transportation in the United States;
In one instance, Adam Newbrey, 31, had the odometer on a 2006 Honda Pilot rolled back more than 259,000 miles, the indictment says. The other vehicles also had their odometer readings decreased by ...
Franklin County investigators are looking for drivers who might be the victims of odometer fraud. Sheriff’s office investigators are asking anyone who bought a vehicle from the Eltopia Auto ...