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Ring ring, - ring ring! (Car ringing made easy)! This is WE DONT give a Cluck-Radio.
Cars are being stolen in the game world. What? No! - you don't say?
News Flash!
Many of the cars come from burglaries and occasionally "terrifying" carjackings.
Daily News Radio. ...
"This news story concerns a large scale criminal enterprise involving the theft and disguise of motor vehicles and their subsequent resale to innocent purchasers," the scam is commonly known as 'ringing'.
Many of the cars had been specially targeted and stolen to order. (yes, really)!
Once a car is in the car ringing gangs possession, the vehicles are carefully "cloned" using the identities of similar cars on dealer forecourts.
In the process of ringing, rubber stamps are used to invent service histories, while special equipment is employed to make new number plates. The vehicles are then advertised in newspapers and on the internet, to be sold to "innocent purchasers".
Within days, many of the cars are "re-stolen" with the thieves simply using duplicate keys from the first time the cars were ringed. Then the cars are given yet another new identity and then sold to further unsuspecting buyers.
News reporters here at WE DONT give a Cluck-Radio, have discovered that some of the vehicles were reborn up to ten times using this method.
Those behind the "large scale ringing organization" continue to elude justice by using under-bosses and teams of car thieves that take advantage of police manpower cuts, and causing major distractions in another part of the city to divert police force resources.
The car thieves strike in large numbers and steal many cars in one session. Its not known where the vehicles disappear to, as searches of dock-land containers and warehouses, where an operation of this size could possibly be held, has yet remained undiscovered. Police are baffled as to how the car crooks manage to hide such a mass of cars, all at one time.
The shear number of vehicles stolen makes it almost impossible for authorities to keep track and follow-up on all of the individual crimes reported, before the next crime-wave hits. Unsuspecting buyers are warned to beware of car deals that seem too good to be true.
In a recent round of car thefts, which saw owners losses total more than $389,000 - The authorities said the crooks hid their tracks behind an array of pay-as-you-go phones, false names and rented rooms. The rented rooms were used to receive vital vehicle documents in the post.
However, police believe the ringing gang has probably made in the region of $1.4 million from this "complex-enterprise" since the ringing gang started its last operation. There are potentially more victims than those the police know of, due mostly to the fact that, once people realize that they have been duped, they refuse to come forward because they know that their vehicle will be impounded as evidence by the police!
"A particular feature of the ringing operation, is the systematic recycling of cars, with the same vehicle being repeatedly stolen from a succession of owners. The ringing gangs success is also put-down to the gullible nature of the buyers and the believability of those selling the cars."
The gang is thought to have used some of its ill-gotten gains to fund a Drugs Cartel, this is a criminal organization developed with the primary purpose of promoting and controlling drug trafficking operations. Police officials are worried that there will now be a bigger problem with more drugs on the street and a flood of crime that follows, as drug users steal to fund their drugs habit.
Its a double whammy for victims, with insurance premiums already at an all time high due to this devastating type of car crime. Not only are your premiums likely to be high, but the insurance companies are now refusing to pay out if you have fallen for the scam and bought a ringer! The insurance companies are claiming that policies will be void, if you cannot prove the vehicles true identity and that the onus is on the owner to provide the correct vehicle details.
Questions remain unanswered.
Who is the mastermind behind the ringing gang?
Where is the ringing operation taking place?
Will SMS text services be allowed to continue "selling" key sensitive information, (that incidentally, they do not own), about a vehicles details and history, or should new legislation be passed to prevent this information from falling into the wrong hands?.
Will your car be next?
Would you hand over the keys of your pride and joy to the police, so that they can crush it and for you never to see a single dollar in compensation?
Would you try to sell on your hot-potato, before anyone notices you've bought a clone?
Anti-freedom-of-information-campaigners said;- "This is a prime example of the freedom of information laws biting back! The crooks are using sms text information services, that provide key vehicle details and a complete vehicle history just for anonymously sending any vehicles registration number via text. This is a primary information resource tool in the ringing gangs operation and this information should be harder to obtain or its use regulated."
The usual vehicle ringing pattern involves an initial theft of a legitimate and properly documented vehicle. These thefts typically take the form of residential burglaries and carjackings in order to obtain the car keys along with the vehicle. It is obvious that the vehicles were the targets of the burglaries, because in the vast majority of the cases the only things taken were the car keys!
There were also a number of incidents of robbery or carjacking where the threat of violence was used to obtain the vehicle, in a minority of cases, cars would be purchased as salvaged vehicles.
It is also thought that salvage yards were used to source replacement ignition and door locks complete with sets of keys, for fitting to stolen vehicles that were originally broken into and stolen without access to keys.
It is believed that the ringing gang uses Internet surfing of car dealer sites to identify vehicles of a similar make and model and a note is made of their number plates. Another key tool of the ringers was the use of a credit checking facility along with sms text to examine the details and status of cars of a similar make, model and specification to the stolen car.
The purpose of the exercise is to- first to obtain a vehicle identification number which could later be applied to the car, and, secondly, to ensure that the hire-purchase information check on the identity to be assumed was clean in that it had trade status and was not flagged up as stolen, written-off or subject to finance.
Once a suitable identity had been identified, the stolen car's original profile would be "usurped" by that of the forecourt car and the vehicle identification number "inscribed" on its chassis.
New logbooks would then be obtained via misrepresentation, from the vehicle licensing bureau.
What will they think up next?
This is WE DONT give a Cluck-Radio News.
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The car ringing operation is actually done on board a ship at sea and this is the reason why the authorities cannot find the warehouse location where the ringing is carried out. Nor can they find any containers with stolen cars in them, because the cars are not transported overland.
Up, Up And Away!
In my version of a New GTA style of game, I would have the heavy-lift helicopter that Yusuf Amir used to grab the train.
And use it to aid in car thefts!
All-Aboard!
Cars would also be driven down into the railway underground, very Italian job style! They would head for the docks port terminal and pop out as close to a docked cargo ship as possible. The cars would then be driven up the ramps of the ship and down into the ships hold.
Some cars would take a different route via disused linking sewer pipes that are large enough for cars, only popping out, to run along railway bridges and then down into the railway system. Only one driver would know the route, with three or more other cars being led to the destination.
This would all take place under the cover of night, with the cars having been stolen miles away! When the cargo ships hold is full or all of the stolen cars are aboard, the cargo ship would leave port into international waters for the ringing process to be completed aboard ship.
Occasional deliveries might have to be made to the ship by smaller supply vessel, with parts and plates for the cars. The cars would be fitted with the number plates as a last detail. The plates and papers for the vehicles would be kept in the ships safe.
The papers and plates would be prepared in some secret location or even perhaps on the cargo ship, once out at sea. The ships captain would be well paid to falsify his papers, to claim that he has either been off to collect vehicles for import, or that he has put out to sea temporarily, to save on harbor fees whilst he awaits his next cargo transport.
We have speed-boat patrols keeping an eye out for law-enforcement around the ship, to give early warning of a possible customs search. If a raid was likely, then the cargo of cars, could easily be dumped overboard very quickly, just by releasing the hand-brakes and pushing them out of the side or rear cargo and vehicle loading doors before the law-enforcement arrives.
Once cars are ready, they are placed into waiting empty containers and buried deep within the cargo, to make inspection lengthy and difficult if a spot check is done when the ship is due to dock. The cargo of containers with cars, would be unloaded in secret at night by a team of dock workers doing some unofficial overtime. To be loaded onto a road train of lorries and driven away immediately.
The containers would be distributed through-out the city and cars would be driven from the containers as soon as possible and parked in unsuspecting locations, right under the noses of the law-enforcement authorities!
Smooth Operators!
It takes a highly trained and trusted team of coordinated workers, who know how to keep their mouths shut and know the penalties for loose tongs, to pull this sophisticated vehicle ringing enterprise off. The ringing gangs work in small organized cells, with limited contact to the coordinators. Like men-in-black, the leaders have no-names and use disposable up-line contact phone numbers, should anything go wrong.
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More about the game world of the New GTA style game.
The police will continue to look for a stolen car diligently, for at least 3 hours after the initial tail has been lost. Not like in the current GTA4, where you only have to escape the police search area and the car is yours.
If you get seen again by another cop, he would naturally radio-in the description of the car he has just seen. Your chase may be on again!
You will be able to do car ringing from car thefts, but you will have to be more creative when planning your mode of transport and how you will steal the cars you want.
Vehicle Stealing Methods.
Stealing cars will involve you nonchalantly picking the lock, perhaps with a lookout man, watching for police, because you don't want to be detected! The lock picking action could work like that in Mafia 2.
Being creative when stealing cars, could mean causing a distraction across the street. For example, with the help of one or two of your wise-guys, one could do a car-reverse-nudge crash and get out and start shouting at the other driver as if it was his fault.
Whilst police and pedestrians are distracted you work on the lock picking. Once inside, you would still need a little time to hot-wire the car, as per how Niko currently steals a car in GTA4.
You could just do the 'Niko-Nicking-Method', a size nine boot through the window, jump in and drive to cover. This method would work best if you have checked out the area for no-police, or it may be the middle of the night, or a dark alley job.
Other times to use the Niko-Nicking-Method, would be when you know the police are stretched for resources, like during a big prison escape. (Mission Hint). Riots at the docks, or perhaps during a police strike or walk-out.
I thought that I would give you some hints as to some types of missions opportunities, that you might expect to see in my type of GTA-style game. I usually don't like to give away my ideas for missions, but I have many requests for descriptions of what type of missions I am planning.
I hope you realize that I cannot really give those to you, not only because it would spoil your game if it were ever to be made, but mainly that other games developers might use these ideas first, then I would be accused of revamping missions. Here's just a few, I have plenty, so these are just a taster! I take a lot of my inspirations from films; can you guess which ones? No prizes, (especially for Attack on Precinct 69)!
Other car grab opportunities might be;
- During an electrical power cut at night. (Perhaps you had something to do with the city power station fault. Hint)!
- During a food poisoning epidemic, (How did you arrange that)?
- Mad man on the loose in a tank. (I bet you had something to do with that)!
- Attack on LCPD Precinct 69. (Surely this was not you, you were tucked up in bed for 9pm)!
- All police helicopters decommissioned city-wide, due to sabotage! (Not you again)?
- Student peace protest turns into riot and looting. (It only takes one to kick it all off)!
- Terrorist city bomb threats hoax! (Clear the streets people)! Do a quiet lock-pic. How many cars can you and your team steal?
- Terrorist bomb goes off in shopping arcade! (All smoke and mirrors, lucky no-one was injured or killed). Yes it is strange that no-one was hurt. Never mind, lets go to the multistory car-park, get the car and go home. Hey where is my car? If fact where is everyone-elses cars too?
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This is a re-post, first posted in 2011.
- http://new-gta-game.blogspot.co.uk/2011/01/gta-car-ringing-operation.html
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