This kind of criminal activity is on the rise for two main reasons: 1. It works. 2. There's virtually no consequences if caught.

To avoid problems like these, I only buy Mitsubishi Mirages.

I'm Canadian. My tenants parked a Range Rover Sport and a Tesla Model S on the driveway. One early morning in 2023 summer, the doctor noticed that his RR disappeared when he was heading for work. They called me immediately and upon checking the videos they saw thieves stole it within 2 minutes at 4:30 am. Canada has changed quite a bit for the worse.

This has been a steady problem for a while. Now it's just getting silly because law enforcement is so relaxed.

I'm Canadian. The stories I hear here about what's happening in the US amaze me. Not that it doesn't happen in Canada. In fact, I think organized crime car theft rings have their own express lane at the port in Montreal.

Another problem is that people who cars were repo, they would report them stolen. Until someone realize it, it a nightmare to undo the issue.

The car market here in tijuana mexiico is a little crazy right now because of what you stated. Plenty of stolen cars and once its of the U.S. there is no chance getting it back. Im hearing san diego has an issue with car theft with TJ so close its easy to put 2 and together

Just had a story break this week of a local business owner that has bought 4 to 5 exotic/collector cars and all of them have come up stolen with fake VIN. It come to a head when someone showed up at his place with keys that would unlock one of the cars and it went down hill from there.

Here's how to detect fraud in New Hampshire: It has rear wheel drive.

Thank you, Lucky! I am lining up to buy a used sports car soon and you have given me more tools to keep from entering into a bad transaction. Pls keep it up.

Always appreciate your perspective!!

That was genius! Taking a picture holding the title to get fingerprints.

You do great work, Lucky. Thx for looking out, brother.

Crazy stuff going on right there. Thanks for the informative video.

Thanks for a great video. WOW! I was not aware of this activity. Appreciate the heads up! Carry On Sir!

Get a pic of the seller and get his fingerprint(s)! Perfect! Thanks again!

It's always good to know if something is increasing or if you're just finding out something has been happening.

VIN swaps been around since the second Model T rolled off the assembly line so to speak. Reminds me of the movie produced in the seventies by H.B Halicki called Gone in 60 Seconds.

Great info.Thank you

The finger print thing got me. Hahaha geez would have never thought to do that. 😢

Great info, thank you!

Wow. Thank you for this video, Lucky. Honestly, I won't be buying a car from third parties anytime soon.

I just watched a Flying Wheels video where on this pristine 590 original miles car the vin tag rivets were not right. Could you show us what to look for as I would never think to check to see if a car had the right vin tag rivets.

Good info! Thank you!

That fingerprint is hilarious lol

Thank you

I'm noticing this alot on facebook marketplace a bunch of vehicles with their ads entirely in spanish and the vehicles are extremely priced lower than other comparable vehicles listed.

I’m a wholesale dealer in south Florida and I got a washed title from Pennsylvania, the car had a lien in Florida e somehow they could get a clear title from Pennsylvania. I sold the car and after a while the lender end up repo the car from the buyer in another state and the auction charged me back for that. Now I have an attorney involved. I heard that Arizona has many issues with fake title.

my favorite car industry channel. but why are views so much lower recently?

Lot of fun out there I didn't know that is that rampant you can't trust anybody to buy a used car from anymore

Definitely do a VIN# Check through your County Clerks Office before Buying! I had a 2002 Honda Odyssey for 10yrs! w/ a Clear Blue Texas Title & then I went to do my yearly registration & all went well until a month later! I got a letter from my Clerks Office, stating, "that I must pull my tags, Do Not Drive my Car because it was "Not Safe for Texas Highways" Even though I had a Clear Blue Texas Title for a little over 10yrs! I found out that Florida made a mistake when entering the VIN # to a similar vehicle & they couldn't correct their mistake! Texas wouldn't help! This put us, a disabled married Man without a vehicle! I sold it for parts, $200, I paid $4k for it! Then I received another letter a year later stating, "Your Car is Safe For Texas Roadways" the mistake was corrected! I said, I already Sold it for scrap because of what you've claimed! I went to many dealerships & they never heard of a State basically doing a Title Seizure after the Vehicle was cleared for over 10yrs! All Coastal States have a new Computer System to prevent the sales of Salvage or Flooded Vehicles. That's what Florida DMV Told me. I got screwed!

Dam it brother. Thank you. My daughters are taking their tax money to buy cars this year. My 1 daughter has a tendency not to wait for me and she gotten taken with some garbage. Lol.

Thanks Lucky

I see so many stolen vehicles online.

Lucky L. do me a solid. Where did you get your hoodie sweat shirt? Looks cool. tie your strings two knots. Thanks.

Thanks for sharing

Here in The Netherlands with 9,5 mln cars on the road only 5844 cars were reported stolen in 2023, mostly by gangs that bring them abroad (Eastern Europe) for parts wrecking. Our title and registration system is very watertight in terms of database couplings to citizenship registration, automatic road tax implementation, mandatory technical inspection and insurance, and it's cheap and efficient (transferring ownership takes 2 minutes at a service desk and costs 10 euros). Bringing a stolen car back into commerce is vitually impossible or so complicated that it's not worthwile. You could try to drive without insurance, road tax or technical inspection but you won't get far before you're caught by the scanners and they will make you regret it big time. So why don't the US come see and learn how to do it right?

I’ve been hearing a lot about stolen vehicles lately infected mine got stolen a week ago

You can check the vin with some obd scanners

I've noticed this be a growing issue. I fell victim of it trying to flip cheap cars. Luckily, they caught the guy behind it, and the car was so cheap I was only out $900. I am curious if chassis swaps would fall under tampering with VINs, and if there's a way to get around that legally?

Was selling parts cars had a guy insist on me paying for report. Was more then happy to provide vin so he could run it as I was already losing money or he could easily run it himself,, but I got the feeling he was working for report company since he only wanted it from a certain company...

hmmm, have you ever successfully had a print lifted from that paper? Paper can be challenging to get prints off of.

Every situation talked about I have seen posted on Reddit legal most are I’ll send you the title an scammers disappear.

Great tip. Recently I went to see a couple of cars that were in those little used car lots here in San Antonio TX. All 3 cars I inspected needed thousands of dollars in repairs, so personally, I'm never going back to those little dealers. They grab cars from auction and don't fix anything, including the tires. Both places didn't even try to offer me a deal. I just wasted my time. I had to go to another bigger dealer, and even they played games. I did buy a car from the bigger dealer, but I think that I'm going to skip them too and just go to the even bigger dealers since they offer at least one month warranty indeed. That was my personal experience. Have any used car inspected by your mechanic and be very meticulous. Even if are planning to use places like Car max or drive time or echo park etc. Or even the bigger dealers. If not, it could cost you thousands of dollars in repairs after you leave the lot. You even have to inspect new cars meticulously. I've seen new cars with issues! I used to work for a new car dealer as a tech. Thanks for the video 👍

Would be a good video on the hardest cars to vin swap and the easiest.

About time the Tommy Hilfiger polos got a break 😂

😂 looking good in the cop outfit !

Lucky, it would have been nice if you had put a car on the lift at your shop and showed us those vin locations. Maybe next time...

Hey ​@LuckyLopez777 where you get that hoodie?? Shein?? Thanks for the great content.

Look up stolen Bronco raptor. I purchased one that was stolen from the Ford factory. Lost 75 grand and almost got arrested. Phoenix AZ. WATCH OUT FOR ALASKA TITLES for cars that have NEVER been to alaska. Mine was vin swapped then the guy ran a carfax to make it look official. Not saying which agency but this situation has now become priority federal case

I love Florida they verify car before you can get plates and Insurance has to be paid up front

Great deal. Cash only. If you know you know.

I buy and sell a lot of cars as a hobbyist. I always see cars for sale without titles. I used to consider that as a parts car because your chances of getting a title are slim to none. Now Im thinking that those cars are either stolen or financed and they are trying to get out and get a quick buck. I have bought cars with the intention of just stripping it and using it for parts. But what if its stolen? Would suck to get caught with it

Parts like ECU on modern cars will store vin and has to use the same vin. Unfortunately ECU is hard to access no one usually does since you may have to remove some clusters

Do I need to do the dealership check if I purchase the car from a used car dealership? especially those small used car dealership.

I went to a dealer in California to test drive a Lambo Gallardo listed for $115k, upon a quick look over, it had bald tires all around! At this point they had this car on their lot for about 6 months...it's not like they just took it in. Ridiculous!

Mr. Lucky, do you refinance cars or do trade ins? I'm looking for ones with adaptive dampers since I'm gonna be driving all day.

Why not just check the vin shown on the obd2 scanner and compare it to the physical vin numbers?

If you have a push to start LT/LS car or a mopar vehicle in any major blue metropolitan area you’re screwed. The only option is to do what I did and spend $1800 on a tracking/immobilizer. Push to start is the worst thing that has ever happened in vehicles. They break the window, program a key- gone in two minutes.

One sure way is to find the VIN on the engine block and match it to the dash and door. If those three match, 99.99~%

Great content!

Why do people block the license plate when posting online?

Man it’s getting crazy out here

Mostly “moving out soon, selling for a friend ads” are red flags

Small dealerships fencing stolen performance cars is as old as performance cars. Know a guy who got free room and board for 10 years. It wasn't for selling the cars, it was the IRS who got him. The IRS does not screw around when it comes to putting bad boys and girls away for a long time.

I hate the devastation people are put through buying something this fraudulent. As much as I wouldn't be seen dead in dealership service. For lot of people a dealer check is just good insurance your making a correct informed decision. Its terrible how this undermines the whole buying experience.

My husband bought a stolen car, registered it and then DMV detectives came to pick up. What do we do how do we get out money back??

Bigger story is how Hertz just unloaded 1/3 of all its EV ,mostly Tesla's . Some as low as 16k..

I bet the people who bought from cnc motors had nightmares to deal with while not 100% related to this video it’s all down to dmv paperwork

That's why I buy new inexpensive cars and drive it for a long time.

*HERE'S A QUESTION.* If a car is turned out to be fraudulent, what HAPPENS to the car? (After it's discovered by the police or whoever). Does it ever wind back up on the market?

Who could have seen this coming.

We had a car stolen at the Santa Monica Place shopping mall and the Santa Monica Police told us the car was in Mexico within 3 hours of the theft .

You just answered why VOTING SHOULD BE IN PERSON, if people are frauding on line with cars or Gov. is clueless to WHAT ONLINE RISK COME WITH IT. Yes it's off topic it's here it is going to be there.

Well if you pay 32K for a 22 Denali don't be surprised it was stolen. Local news ran a story about it this week. If it is to good to be true um it is

I buy cars from private sellers online and I ask them to verify the title with me at the DMV before the transaction is made. The scammers always make excuses of why the don't want to verify the title at the DMV with me. If they are real owners then they have no problem meeting me at the DMV to verify the title. It works every time.

finger prints dont work unfortunately 😕

Lucky you sold the Audi, update the closing video!

You might want to take it to a dealer to check it out, before you pay for it.

How are dealerships not running vin when they show u a car fax

Omg I can’t stand it when people say “vin numbers” your literally saying number twice 🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️

Lucky struggling not to say 'if you're one of the scammers doing this, they're gonna send you to federal pound you in A** prison'

Can you make a reenactment video of the guy with the stolen title?

I heard that 20000 used Teslas will be flooding the market soon too.

😂nah you still won’t talk about the illegal loans 😂

*’The Dodge Hellcat for $20K’* bit was funny but I didn’t laugh because im so disgusted with these ‘depreciating novelties’ being sold for more than $100K smhlmao

I need a stolen car if I can get a discount.

I bet carvana still has hundreds of stolen cars in their inventory because they can't find the title

Reason #469 why I don't mess with used cars.

You should've put a dodge charger hellcat for the thumbnail instead 😂😂😂😂😂😂 you dont see many c8 z06 getting stolen lol especially a regular c8 base

Wait. They just take the car and if you have been paying for a loan for years you have no recourse? No that can't be right.

My mom and I were hit by a person who drove a stolen car with a fake license plate & VIN in 2022. He drove off. Yes I have. Be careful you all!

Please tell us you call the police on the obvious thieves.

I’ve been noticing a trend were people are letting other people take over their loan payments on their financed cars They even have a facebook group for it Called “Creative for Cars” Seems pretty sketchy 😂

Will OBD2 scan vin # be actual ?

But this isn’t a new thing

When you realize it's fake, take a pic of their face and license plate and call the cops (if they take the title and dash). Obvious criminals need to be held accountable.

Hilarious yes its ok man what they gonna do demonitize you lol

Anyone doing a private sale not at their house and without a stack of service records is probably a scammer or a dealer pretending to be a private sale. lol

Why do you keep saying "VIN number"?