Fraud of the Week

Staged Accident Fraud—Oklahoma

Amount: Unknown

June 13, 2016

An Oklahoma man has been sentenced to eighteen years in prison after being convicted of nine felony counts of submitting false insurance claims. The man used various aliases and would wait in various parking lots to intentionally cause wrecks that resulted in the other party paying for his false insurance claim. Many of the victims were elderly, and officials suspect he targeted them because of their age. Surveillance video shows that he would drive up and down the rows looking for an opportunity to create an accident when someone was backing out of a parking spot. Many times the damage claimed did not match what would have normally been caused in such accidents. He had already served time in 2009 for the same type of fraud.