Teh One Who Knocks
04-03-2017, 11:11 AM
By Tom Gillespie - The Sun
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Looks can be deceiving: This ‘Ferrari’ driven by Islam is actually a modified Toyota MR2
A “CRASH for cash” fraudster who drove a replica Ferrari has been jailed after he was rumbled by a simple Facebook search.
Adam Islam said he didn’t know who had smashed into his phoney supercar when he claimed £29,000 from LV insurance in September 2014.
Investigators quickly found Facebook photographs of him with Mohammed Khayer – the man who had just written off his car.
Islam was driving a Toyota MR2 that he had modified to look like an expensive Ferrari.
The 24-year-old from Barking, London, has been jailed for 18 months after his fraud was foiled by social media savvy investigators.
Khayer, 27, from Ilford in London was also charged with fraud and was handed a 12 month suspended sentence at Snaresbrook Crown Court in Greater London.
The pair’s friendship was discovered after Islam received the large payout from the insurers.
They initially denied staging the crash but pleaded guilty to making a false claim.
Islam told LV he had pulled over in Barking, Essex, after the battery on his phone had run out.
He said Khayer then crashed into him in a rented Audi A1 he had picked up earlier that day.
Khayer would incur no personal cost by accepting liability for the accident because the vehicle was insured by hire firm Sixt.
He could then split the hefty insurance pay-out with Islam.
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An image shows the damaged caused to the heavily modified Toyota MR2 in September 2014
Mark Stanger, prosecuting: “Khayer made a telephone call to Sixt to report he had been involved in a traffic accident in the east end of London.
“But there was a charade being carried out.
“Islam and Khayer pretended they didn’t know each other.
“Later the same day Islam said he had been involved in a traffic accident in a Toyota MR2, which he done up as a replica Ferrari.
“He said an Audi had driven into it him, and he was involved in a non-fault accident which was a matter he could make an insurance claim with his insurers LV.
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‘The two were well acquainted’: It turned out Khayer deliberately caused this damage to what at first seemed to be a supercar
“Accident Exchange visited Islam to take a witness statement, where he said that the man driving the Audi had said he swerved to avoid hitting a cat or a fox.
“This is what Khayer had told Sixt too.
“An investigation was carried out however that established that these two were well acquainted.
“They had co-advertised a van together on the internet and there were photos of them together on Facebook.
“Meanwhile, LV had unwittingly issued a cheque to Islam for £29,000.
“He took that cheque to the Money Shop and cashed it in.”
Judge Stephen Dawson told the pair: "Ironically the detriment of this is to the public because the insurers raise their premiums, passing on their losses.
"This was a relatively sophisticated offence by both of you.
"You both had to agree on your story to give to the fraudulent information to the insurance companies
"You pretended that you didn't know each other.
"We all end up paying more for car insurance because of fraud of this sort
"It means the trust that the public are given by insurance companies is eroded."
http://i.imgur.com/5dvJHCJ.jpg
Looks can be deceiving: This ‘Ferrari’ driven by Islam is actually a modified Toyota MR2
A “CRASH for cash” fraudster who drove a replica Ferrari has been jailed after he was rumbled by a simple Facebook search.
Adam Islam said he didn’t know who had smashed into his phoney supercar when he claimed £29,000 from LV insurance in September 2014.
Investigators quickly found Facebook photographs of him with Mohammed Khayer – the man who had just written off his car.
Islam was driving a Toyota MR2 that he had modified to look like an expensive Ferrari.
The 24-year-old from Barking, London, has been jailed for 18 months after his fraud was foiled by social media savvy investigators.
Khayer, 27, from Ilford in London was also charged with fraud and was handed a 12 month suspended sentence at Snaresbrook Crown Court in Greater London.
The pair’s friendship was discovered after Islam received the large payout from the insurers.
They initially denied staging the crash but pleaded guilty to making a false claim.
Islam told LV he had pulled over in Barking, Essex, after the battery on his phone had run out.
He said Khayer then crashed into him in a rented Audi A1 he had picked up earlier that day.
Khayer would incur no personal cost by accepting liability for the accident because the vehicle was insured by hire firm Sixt.
He could then split the hefty insurance pay-out with Islam.
http://i.imgur.com/EelKU4A.jpg
An image shows the damaged caused to the heavily modified Toyota MR2 in September 2014
Mark Stanger, prosecuting: “Khayer made a telephone call to Sixt to report he had been involved in a traffic accident in the east end of London.
“But there was a charade being carried out.
“Islam and Khayer pretended they didn’t know each other.
“Later the same day Islam said he had been involved in a traffic accident in a Toyota MR2, which he done up as a replica Ferrari.
“He said an Audi had driven into it him, and he was involved in a non-fault accident which was a matter he could make an insurance claim with his insurers LV.
http://i.imgur.com/VQE2LFh.jpg
‘The two were well acquainted’: It turned out Khayer deliberately caused this damage to what at first seemed to be a supercar
“Accident Exchange visited Islam to take a witness statement, where he said that the man driving the Audi had said he swerved to avoid hitting a cat or a fox.
“This is what Khayer had told Sixt too.
“An investigation was carried out however that established that these two were well acquainted.
“They had co-advertised a van together on the internet and there were photos of them together on Facebook.
“Meanwhile, LV had unwittingly issued a cheque to Islam for £29,000.
“He took that cheque to the Money Shop and cashed it in.”
Judge Stephen Dawson told the pair: "Ironically the detriment of this is to the public because the insurers raise their premiums, passing on their losses.
"This was a relatively sophisticated offence by both of you.
"You both had to agree on your story to give to the fraudulent information to the insurance companies
"You pretended that you didn't know each other.
"We all end up paying more for car insurance because of fraud of this sort
"It means the trust that the public are given by insurance companies is eroded."