Modern thieves use car IDs

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Your car may have a clone.

“A vehicle identification number [VIN] is like a fingerprint for the car,” said Frank Scafidi, spokesman for the National Insurance Crime Bureau, which identifies insurance criminals. “A VIN is issued to a car when it?s born and should go to the grave with the car when it?s scrapped, but that?s not happening.”

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