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party monkey



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Police AVCIS operation on Ebay sales of V5's/Vin plates
Dear all,

LandyWatch have been approached by the rural crime team of the Police AVCIS to assist them in identifying sellers of suspect Landy Log books/Vin plates etc on Ebay, particularly when no or very little of the chassis is included.

Membership on LW is still pretty low, but I am mindful that many folk on here keep an eye on both Ebay and Gumtree and post up suspicious sales, so I'm hoping that across a number of Landy Forums, we can point the police in the right direction, particularly as they approached us and they're willing to listen and hopefully act.

I'll keep an eye on the posts on here, LW and one other forum and then I'll collate/copy the details over to AVCIS every few days. That way, their email address won't get clogged up with duplicates.

Cheers

Very Happy Jon - 110 td5 [sold]. Currently Defenderless.
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I know it does not help now but there were a few sellers at the Newbury sortout selling VC5's and VIN plates with very little else...

I was surprised how many there were actually were, or how many I noticed this time.

Jason.
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jasong4110 wrote:
I know it does not help now but there were a few sellers at the Newbury sortout selling VC5's and VIN plates with very little else...

I was surprised how many there were actually were, or how many I noticed this time.

Jason.

There was also a couple of police officers doing the rounds
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Here's one: Rich

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@Richuk... cheers chap, have sent this on to AVCIS along with a couple of others highlighted elsewhere Thumbs Up Jon - 110 td5 [sold]. Currently Defenderless.
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No problem, it was actually flagged up over on Disco3.co.uk Thumbs Up Rich

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Item now pulled by ebay Rich

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Our first reported success.....

Received following from AVCIS this morning (and cleared to post on the forums)

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On another note, we have had our first success. I visited someone who had taxed one of the ID's that sold on E-bay back in November. When we arrived at his house he had the number plates, vin plate and a tax disc proudly displayed on a totally different vehicle. We are in the process of trying to find out the true ID.



I've not been told to which actual ID this one related too, as suspect that is too sensitive.

It's a start.... please keep sending them in Smile Jon - 110 td5 [sold]. Currently Defenderless.
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That is good news Jon Thumbs Up

I would not expect the police to give details out, but to know they have had a success is good.

It would be nice to know what other things they found and what other leads they picked up. No chance of finding out really though.

Brendan
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Will of course update here if I'm made aware of further info on this one Smile Jon - 110 td5 [sold]. Currently Defenderless.
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Sadly, I heard from my main contact at the rural crime side of AVCIS, that he is going back to his local force next week and the powers that be have decided not to replace him. So that will only leave one person on that section and he'll no doubt be busy with all the nicked farm plant etc... Going forward now, I'm not sure how much feedback we'll get and indeed what action they'll be taking on anything other than the easy/blatant examples Mad Jon - 110 td5 [sold]. Currently Defenderless.
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seen on e bay too day

item number http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/161058652059 ?
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It's easy to see how this situation has developed and it probably affects a lot of vehicle makes. I have had three cars for which DVLA issued me with new red log books in an attempt to prevent fraud due to a load of the old ones being nicked from them a couple of years ago. However I was not required to return the old log book, just asked to dispose of it. I sold my 300 Tdi a cpuple of months ago and guess what, I gave the new buyer the new log book but I still have the old one, I wonder how many dishonest people could make use of that?
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