Millions of drivers warned over NEW scam targeting specific vehicles – could you be at risk of losing £1,000s?

MILLIONS of drivers person been warned astir a caller scam targeting circumstantial vehicles that could sting them for thousands.

Fraudsters are targeting guiltless Brits to effort and triumph large compensation payouts, according to a large security provider.

So-called "cash for crash" scams are connected the emergence crossed the UK, the latest information from Allianz shows.

The steadfast recovered a 60-time summation successful cases since the commencement of past year, portion the Insurance Fraud Bureau (IFB) believes that £27 cardinal is presently being fought implicit acknowledgment to dodgy claims.

The hustle involves deliberately causing a clang successful a mode which makes it look similar the different driver's responsibility successful bid to triumph insurance payouts.

Common methods see abruptly stopping successful a wide roadworthy (a.k.a brake checking), relying connected the story that the operator down is automatically astatine responsibility successful a rear-end collision.

Criminals often usage inexpensive mopeds which they tin easy constitute disconnected and pouch the cash.

The dastardly strategy is peculiarly prevalent successful large cities and could cost victims thousands, arsenic good arsenic plunging them into a lengthy and stressful quality process.

Another insurer, Ageas, has present warned that determination are besides peculiar types of vehicles astatine higher hazard of being targeted by scammers.

Experts astatine the steadfast are reporting a displacement distant from mean rider cars and an summation successful currency for clang incidents involving vans.

Fraudsters volition seemingly hold until a van is reversing and past propulsion down it to origin a crash, taking vantage of the LGV's important unsighted spots.

However, mundane drivers are inactive astatine hazard arsenic different fashionable swindle is to instrumentality a akin attack to cars emerging from unsighted bends oregon junctions with debased visibility.

Fortunately, it's comparatively casual to protect yourself from the scam.

All you request to bash is marque definite you tin beryllium that you were not astatine responsibility for immoderate collision.

The easiest mode to bash this is to instal a dash cam connected your vehicle.

Cheap cameras tin beryllium picked up for arsenic small arsenic £6 online and supply large extortion against this benignant of scam.

If you tin taxable video grounds that a clang was caused by deliberate oregon reckless enactment by the different driver, you volition apt triumph the security lawsuit careless of who went into who.

And if you don't person a dash cam, it's captious to compile arsenic overmuch grounds arsenic you tin to backmost up your story, including dash cam and video doorbell footage from different people.

Plus, you tin study immoderate suspicious collision to the IFB if you fearfulness you whitethorn person fallen unfortunate to a cash for crash attempt.

Matt Crabtree, caput of fiscal transgression quality for Allianz, said: "Organised transgression gangs person evolved their tactics truthful we’re seeing them determination astir and usage tiny clusters crossed wider areas to effort to debar detection."

Katie Davies, manager of underwriting services and fraud astatine Ageas, added: "Our fraud quality squad has seen a important emergence successful this crash-for-cash scam, some successful London and spreading to different ample municipality centres."