The Tag Agent Charged With Washing 65 Stolen Luxury Cars
Operation Hot Wheels: a Philadelphia tag agent used PennDOT access to title-wash 65 stolen Ferraris, Mercedes and BMWs worth $3.8 million. How it worked.
Case Studies
A guide can tell you how a scam works in general. A case study shows you how one actually ran: the listing, the seller, the paperwork, the moment the buyer could have caught it and didn’t, and how it eventually came apart. These articles are built from court records, enforcement filings, regulator press releases and first-hand accounts, and each one ends with the same two questions — what should the buyer have checked, and what would have shown it. Read them the way an inspector reads incident reports: not for the story, but for the pattern.