Tagged fraud & crime
January 23, 2012 in Rental Operations, Safety
Renters were either arrested or in hiding from police.
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January 11, 2012 in Rental Operations
Victim was working to sell a silver 2008 Mercedes Benz coupe that he hoped would bring him $60,000.
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January 9, 2012 in Safety, Telematics
One BVRLA rental member reported that a customer made an electronic copy of the key and fitted a tracking device to the car so it could be located later, entered using the duplicate key and then stolen.
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By Chris Brown , January 2012
The theft of exotic cars due to lack of proper security controls brings up insurance, liability and quality concerns regarding the peer-to-peer model. Sometimes it’s not so smart to cut out the middleman.
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January 6, 2012 in Safety, Maintenance
Around 25% of the city’s car-sharing fleet was vandalized or suffered from breakdowns after about a month of service.
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January 5, 2012 in Fleet Insurance, Rental Operations
After cracking down on illegal car rental operations in a 2008 campaign, Dubai police said unregistered and uninsured vehicles are still an issue on auto rental lots.
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January 4, 2012 in Fleet Insurance, Rental Operations, Safety
HiGear, a peer-to-peer, luxury car-sharing company in San Francisco, announced it is shutting down after a series of vehicles were stolen from customers.
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December 28, 2011
Boston City Councilmember Rob Consalvo authored the legislation in which the Boston Police Department and major car rental companies in the city agreed that police should have immediate access to drivers’ names when the license plate is pulled.
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December 20, 2011 in Safety
In one case last week, a woman was trying to pay off her drug dealer by letting him test drive her rental car, and another thought she was on a romantic movie date … but both ‘got duped.’
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November 30, 2011
In the early morning after Thanksgiving, the small car rental company received a call to retrieve a car in an L.A. alley.
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