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19 March 2008

‘Car cloning’ is where criminals give a stolen car the identity of an existing, legitimate vehicle by using false number plates.

If you buy a cloned car you won’t legally own it - and you’ll lose your money.

There are many steps you can take to avoid buying a cloned car:

Ensure you get the seller’s landline number - not just their mobile number.
Make sure you see the vehicle at the dealer’s/private seller’s address - not in a car park, outside a pub or in a lay-by.
Make sure the details on the vehicle registration certificate match up to the person you’re buying the vehicle from, and make sure you see some ID.
Don’t pay cash for the car - criminals selling cloned vehicles will rarely take a bankers' draft.
If the deal seems too good to be true, it probably is - walk away.

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