American hijackers annually steal cars for $ 8 billion

According to the FBI, annually in the United States, attackers steal 1.3 million cars, on average, one hijacking occurs every 24 seconds, so while the heroes from the movie “Ustrate in 60 seconds” were supposed to steal one car per minute to complete the task, their real prototypes die as much as 3 vehicles.

The total damage, according to the FBI, is about $ 8 billion. At the same time, law enforcement agencies return only every third stolen car to the owners, and more often other criminals prefer Toyota and Honda, RIA Novosti reports.

The new security system will crush fingers to the hijacker

Moreover, the ways that hijackers use to legalize stolen machines are usually not varied. It is sold to spare parts or handed over to buyers. In this case, the thief will receive only a small part of its nominal value for the car.

However, recently a new scheme has appeared, which has become more and more popular among American hijackers and was called the "Cloning of the Machine".

The scheme acts as follows: after the theft, the attacker drives the stolen car to the Slotnik and searches for the identical - the same year of release and color in a large car dealership, it remains to just look under the hood of the car put up for sale and write it down the identification number (VIN). After that, he makes exactly the same and is put on a stolen car in return for the old Vin, according to which Polyuya is looking for a car ..

Further, the hijacker, having come up with the story of the loss of documents, can contact the office of registration of vehicles and get the necessary papers with confirmation of the ownership of the car. He can only sell a “cleaned” car at a market price.

"Cloning of cars" is the main headache of the local police, who still does not have a single electronic database. If different states could communicate with each other in electronic form, then the registration of the car already registered in another state would be impossible.