NCT and Tax disc theft?

thats not gone well

I got an email from my insurance company today;

A possible scam has recently been brought to our attention. This is the first time we have been made aware of this type of scam and as yet it is still unclear if it is just an isolated incident.
Our customer, travelling recently, stopped and went into a shop to buy a drink. Coming out of the shop, walking towards his car he pressed his Key Fob. With that, a girl ran to his car, jumped in the passenger’s side door, and took his insurance, tax, and NCT disc and ran off with her accomplice.

Anyone ever come across this before?

I've heard of people opening unlocked cars before the owner locks it as they walk away alright, but this is the first I've heard of solely disc theft.

YbFocus

thats not gone well wrote: »

I got an email from my insurance company today;

Anyone ever come across this before?

I've heard of people opening unlocked cars before the owner locks it as they walk away alright, but this is the first I've heard of solely disc theft.

Would it not be useless to them with the reg on the disc?

Scortho

thats not gone well wrote: »

I got an email from my insurance company today;

Anyone ever come across this before?

I've heard of people opening unlocked cars before the owner locks it as they walk away alright, but this is the first I've heard of solely disc theft.

Driver doesn't loose out anyway.
The disc isn't the cert.
I got stopped on Thursday night and was
Asked to bring my cert to the station within 7 days even though my disk was valid.

biko

It's theft, not even a scam. Is this for real?
In UK this was happening 10 years ago, suppose it's time for it to arrive here now

corkgsxr

There's a few anpr cars around it wouldn't stand up to a close inspection after being stopped for no tax and insurance

colm_mcm

YbFocus wrote: »

World it not be useless to them with the reg on the disc?

They'd just get matching number plates.

Neilw

Another one of these "I was told" incidents.

Baby in a car seat on the road, wheelie bin behind car. Urban myth I think.

Kenny Logins

thats not gone well wrote: »

I got an email from my insurance company today;

Anyone ever come across this before?

I've heard of people opening unlocked cars before the owner locks it as they walk away alright, but this is the first I've heard of solely disc theft.

Sounds like bullsh!t.

thats not gone well

Neilw wrote: »

Another one of these "I was told" incidents.

Baby in a car seat on the road, wheelie bin behind car. Urban myth I think.

Kenny Logins wrote: »

Sounds like bullsh!t.

To be honest I agree, just thought it was strange an insurance company sending out such info.

The only use for the discs I can see would be if you went the whole hog and forged the certs as well using real cert numbers. But that has been discussed before here.

mickdw

I'd be very much worried that my car was being cloned if such a theft happened me.

djimi

corkgsxr wrote: »

There's a few anpr cars around it wouldn't stand up to a close inspection after being stopped for no tax and insurance

Are they perhaps hoping that anyone looking would just see the dates and not look further?

Surely it would be easier to forge the discs rather than rob them? I cant imagine it would be too difficult for anyone with even basic Photoshop skills to knock together a convincing looking tax/NCT disc in minutes.

coylemj

There is an anti-hijack security option you can select on a lot of cars with remote central locking whereby on a single-click of the remote, only the driver's door is unlocked, you have to click twice to open all of the doors. That's one solution to that scam - if it's true which I doubt.

Or just don't click the remote until you're a few feet away from the car.

Matt Simis

Sounds like two kids messing around. A pointless way to get caught or in trouble when you consider with a standard home printer and average photoshop skill you can print up your own discs which would pass the look in the window test. If you were into that sort of thing. :pac:

EDIT: Ok this is what djimi also said, but thats consensus people, must be true!

naughtysmurf

This actually happened recently to a lad I work with, car broken into overnight & discs taken, he reported it to the Guards, they came out but he got the impression they hadn't come across it before, had to get a report done up from them so he could get replacement discs, nothing else taken from the car and they didn't seem to try and steal it so it does happen for some reason

coylemj

OP, please name the insurance company and can you confirm that you got the e-mail today as you said in your first post. Have you received e-mails from the same insurance company in the past?

TBH it sounds too much like a hoax virus.

Days 298

Happened to someone I know too. All three discs taken and nothing else. I presume they were used for cloning.

egav

Happened me, advertised car on done deal, guy rang about it and arranged to come view it. then later that night he called to say would not make it over till next day, went to car next morning and passenger window smashed, discs gone.they were found on a stolen car that was sold using plates with my reg.had false reg cert made also.

iremex

it happened to me last week at some stage. all three certs were removed. nothing else was taken from the car. they even left the old certs in the holders! I didnt even realise they were gone until i went to trade the car in on saturday and went to remove the insurance disc.

i know it happened in the last week as the car has been locked up in the garage for the past 3months and i had just NCT'd the car. the when/where is the mystery i am left with.

uck51js9zml2yt

I had disks stolen from a truck a few years ago. got a call s few months later to say my truck was blocking a gate for a few days in clondalkin . my truck was in the yard but went over to find an identical one with false plates and my discs blocking the gate. called the guards but they wouldn't let me look in the back to see what was in it. the truck had been stolen.

Anan1

thats not gone well wrote: »

I got an email from my insurance company today;

Anyone ever come across this before?

I've heard of people opening unlocked cars before the owner locks it as they walk away alright, but this is the first I've heard of solely disc theft.

What insurance company emailed you this?