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STAGED AUTO ACCIDENTS AND CLAIMS

Criminals are rounding up homeless people and offering them up to $1500 each if they would be willing to participate in a "phony" car accident to collect insurance money. They are then wisked away to an undisclosed location where the homeless people have their arm or leg broken then they are taken to the staged car wreck and the police are called to file a police report so the criminals can start the insurance claim process. Unfortunately, some of the homeless people may never get paid even though the criminals staging the auto accidents collected significant sums of money from the insurance companies!

SUPPLEMENTAL SOURCE: CNN HEADLINE NEWS 6/7/03

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