Car Accident Scams

Last updated 3 months ago

"In this tough economy, one type of insurance fraud is more popular than ever. It involves scam artists who stage car crashes in order to cash in. CBS News chief investigative correspondent Armen Keteyian shows us how it works.

In Tampa, Florida, security cameras outside a business captured an accident: an SUV "slammed" into a car.

But rewind the tape and you see the car was actually driven into the middle of the street. The driver got out, a collision, and then five people climbed into the damaged vehicle."

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