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The crimes of one crooked body shop, two chop shops and a number of paralegals are among the strangest and most audacious insurance frauds and auto theft cases uncovered by insurance investigators this year. Released by the Insurance Bureau of Canada, the annual Top Ten Insurance Crimes list is intended to raise awareness of the most ridiculous crimes concocted by insurance criminals.
"It never fails to amaze me the extent to which people will go to defraud the system," says Rick Dubin, vice-president, investigations, Insurance Bureau of Canada (IBC). "We cannot fight these crimes alone. Many of the schemes on this list were brought to light thanks to tips from Good Samaritans. We applaud...