The methods of vehicle crime are shifting. Alongside classic theft, obtaining vehicles through forged documents and fake identities is gaining strongly in importance.
Analyses show that more and more perpetrators acquire vehicles by seemingly legal means – via shell companies, forged papers and rental and leasing fraud – and then make them disappear. The share of misappropriation among all lost cars has risen accordingly.
For car rentals this means: the most important point of defence shifts from the car park to the counter. Where identity is reliably checked, this form of fraud loses its basis.