Warnings, Warnings to all drivers
Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 11:23 amHave you ever been stopped on the road near traffic lights by some one wearing like car mechanics because he saw some thing was wrong with your car? After that he repaired your car and charged you some money. If yes, you have been conned. Because there was nothing wrong with your car. The mechanic was a conman. This is what happened to me on 03/04/2009. Please read the following report I sent to Hackney Police Station. This report is a bit edited and added to.
Hackney Police Station
2 Lower Clapton Rd
London, E5.
Dear Sir/Madam,
I am writing to bring to your attention a strange crime, to which people become victims of it without knowing it. This crime committed by vehicle repair mechanics or fraudsters disguised as vehicle repair mechanics. This is how it is done very cleverly: The fraudster waits near traffic lights to choose a victim. It seems they do this after hours of work. When he chooses a victim, he distracts his attention and throws engine oil on the front of the vehicle and calls the driver to tell him some thing wrong with the vehicle. After that he explains what is wrong with the vehicle and offers his service to repair it immediately. This is what happened to me on Friday the 3rd of April 2009 between 9:30pm and 11:30pm.
I was coming back from NW3 and passed through Hackney. Please see the attached local area map. I stopped behind traffic waiting for the red light to change at the junction of Mare Street and Morning Lane. A slim 5 feet tall Turkish man, it was obvious he was a mechanic, drew my attention. He was pointing to the van and was trying to tell me some thing. I didn’t understand. So he came to the drivers, my, side of the vehicle and told me there was oil leak on front of my van. I saw the oil and horrified. He told me he was a mechanic and told me to come to the Morning lane to check it for me. From there, I saw plenty of oil was leaking from the radiator. It didn’t make sense for me. But he was very clever, experienced and quick to distract my attention. He didn’t waste time and asked me to drive to point Nursery Road E8, where his workshop was. When I stopped plenty of oil was leaking.
He went inside the car repair shop and came back with a sort of pipe. He went under the van from the front and pretended fitting the pipe. He showed me a pipe, which he said it was the broken oil pipe. After a minute or so he came out under the van and said he fitted the new oil pipe. I had a new gallon of engine oil inside my van. He refilled the engine with that oil. I was very thankful for what he did. He asked me for £65.00, then he changed his demand to £95.00 but I persuaded him to accept £65.00. The following day in the morning I went to check the van. First I checked oil dipstick. I discovered the van had been overflowed with oil. I went under the van but I didn’t see anything new fitted to the van. When I revised exactly what happened, I realised I had been conned and he was a fraudster. There was nothing wrong with my van but cleverly and deceptively; he made me to believe some thing seriously was wrong with my van.
This fraudster was very experienced in what he did. He was acting like a magician to distract my attention. He was very confidence, deceptive and knew very well what to do at each moment. He was an expert, which means he had done such frauds many times and possibly he has involved in serious crimes. He asked me to drive to point number 4 but I couldn’t because my van was too high for the arch. Now why he asked me to drive to point number 4? The answer is very simple. He was planning a serious crime. (Point number 4 is the hidden part of Nursery Road E8, which extends under railway arch and after that extends further a long the railway.)
This fraud could be wide spread and thousands have become a victim of it without knowing and it could have caused serious crimes. To fight this crime before warning public you need to arrest one or two of these fraudsters red-handed to get to the bottom of it. If there is a cc camera at Mare Street and Morning Lane junction, it can help to identify this fraudster. There may be a cc camera at Nursery Road E8, it is the backyard of tesco super store.
Usually these fraudsters must be operating after hours of work like after 8:00pm and hang around near traffic lights, which are not far from car repair shops. They wear like mechanics. So they can be easily identified and watched. If a car seen under repair outside a car repair workshop after hours of work, it could involve this sort of fraud. Why not put some hidden cameras at places like nursery road to see what is going on after hours of work.
This fraudster seemed to be very innovative in his fraud. What made me to believe that some thing was seriously wrong with my van, was seeing oil leaking from the front of the engine after opening the bonnet. Now how he managed to throw oil through the radiator on the front of the engine? The answer is simple. He is using a sort mechanical system hidden under what he is wearing and a pipe comes out inside his sleeve to his hand. This mechanical system squeezes oil very strongly. That is how he managed to throw oil from the front of the van through the radiator on the front of the engine. Another thing, I have just realised, is that the pipe he showed me, which supposed to have been the broken one, was not an oil pipe at all. It was a piece of a broken security chain, the ones used to tie bikes or motor bikes to prevent them stolen. This is another clever trick, which he uses to see if the victim has any mechanical knowledge or not before he takes the matter any further.
Finally if you saw any one wearing like car mechanic and hanging near traffic lights take his pictures with your mobile and pass it to the police.
PS: The following morning, I went to the place. But the people there denied about the existence of such person with them.
Hackney Police Station
2 Lower Clapton Rd
London, E5.
Dear Sir/Madam,
I am writing to bring to your attention a strange crime, to which people become victims of it without knowing it. This crime committed by vehicle repair mechanics or fraudsters disguised as vehicle repair mechanics. This is how it is done very cleverly: The fraudster waits near traffic lights to choose a victim. It seems they do this after hours of work. When he chooses a victim, he distracts his attention and throws engine oil on the front of the vehicle and calls the driver to tell him some thing wrong with the vehicle. After that he explains what is wrong with the vehicle and offers his service to repair it immediately. This is what happened to me on Friday the 3rd of April 2009 between 9:30pm and 11:30pm.
I was coming back from NW3 and passed through Hackney. Please see the attached local area map. I stopped behind traffic waiting for the red light to change at the junction of Mare Street and Morning Lane. A slim 5 feet tall Turkish man, it was obvious he was a mechanic, drew my attention. He was pointing to the van and was trying to tell me some thing. I didn’t understand. So he came to the drivers, my, side of the vehicle and told me there was oil leak on front of my van. I saw the oil and horrified. He told me he was a mechanic and told me to come to the Morning lane to check it for me. From there, I saw plenty of oil was leaking from the radiator. It didn’t make sense for me. But he was very clever, experienced and quick to distract my attention. He didn’t waste time and asked me to drive to point Nursery Road E8, where his workshop was. When I stopped plenty of oil was leaking.
He went inside the car repair shop and came back with a sort of pipe. He went under the van from the front and pretended fitting the pipe. He showed me a pipe, which he said it was the broken oil pipe. After a minute or so he came out under the van and said he fitted the new oil pipe. I had a new gallon of engine oil inside my van. He refilled the engine with that oil. I was very thankful for what he did. He asked me for £65.00, then he changed his demand to £95.00 but I persuaded him to accept £65.00. The following day in the morning I went to check the van. First I checked oil dipstick. I discovered the van had been overflowed with oil. I went under the van but I didn’t see anything new fitted to the van. When I revised exactly what happened, I realised I had been conned and he was a fraudster. There was nothing wrong with my van but cleverly and deceptively; he made me to believe some thing seriously was wrong with my van.
This fraudster was very experienced in what he did. He was acting like a magician to distract my attention. He was very confidence, deceptive and knew very well what to do at each moment. He was an expert, which means he had done such frauds many times and possibly he has involved in serious crimes. He asked me to drive to point number 4 but I couldn’t because my van was too high for the arch. Now why he asked me to drive to point number 4? The answer is very simple. He was planning a serious crime. (Point number 4 is the hidden part of Nursery Road E8, which extends under railway arch and after that extends further a long the railway.)
This fraud could be wide spread and thousands have become a victim of it without knowing and it could have caused serious crimes. To fight this crime before warning public you need to arrest one or two of these fraudsters red-handed to get to the bottom of it. If there is a cc camera at Mare Street and Morning Lane junction, it can help to identify this fraudster. There may be a cc camera at Nursery Road E8, it is the backyard of tesco super store.
Usually these fraudsters must be operating after hours of work like after 8:00pm and hang around near traffic lights, which are not far from car repair shops. They wear like mechanics. So they can be easily identified and watched. If a car seen under repair outside a car repair workshop after hours of work, it could involve this sort of fraud. Why not put some hidden cameras at places like nursery road to see what is going on after hours of work.
This fraudster seemed to be very innovative in his fraud. What made me to believe that some thing was seriously wrong with my van, was seeing oil leaking from the front of the engine after opening the bonnet. Now how he managed to throw oil through the radiator on the front of the engine? The answer is simple. He is using a sort mechanical system hidden under what he is wearing and a pipe comes out inside his sleeve to his hand. This mechanical system squeezes oil very strongly. That is how he managed to throw oil from the front of the van through the radiator on the front of the engine. Another thing, I have just realised, is that the pipe he showed me, which supposed to have been the broken one, was not an oil pipe at all. It was a piece of a broken security chain, the ones used to tie bikes or motor bikes to prevent them stolen. This is another clever trick, which he uses to see if the victim has any mechanical knowledge or not before he takes the matter any further.
Finally if you saw any one wearing like car mechanic and hanging near traffic lights take his pictures with your mobile and pass it to the police.
PS: The following morning, I went to the place. But the people there denied about the existence of such person with them.