A new wave of crime seems to be setting a dangerous precedence in America as hackers now steal cars by diverting their delivery destination to their own location.
Sometimes cars are bought from locations far from the buyer then transported on trucks from the dealer to the buyer.
This mostly happens when one wants a particular car that dealers around him do not have.
Now, car thieves use this transportation period as an opportunity to steal cars especially high-end ones.
According to Carscoops, “one man who claims to be the latest victim of this trend is Michigan-based Nader Eldamouni, who together with his business partner decided to buy a $300,000 Rolls Royce Dawn convertible. The small hitch was that the grey over orange cabrio was located in South Florida so would need to be trucked 1,300 miles (2,090 km) to his house near Detroit. No sweat, he presumed. Expensive cars are transported across the US every day.
But the Roller never rolled up at his door. Eldamouni, who already appears to own a Lambo, Rolls Royce Phantom and Mercedes G-Class told WSVN 7News Miami he believes thieves stole the car after it was picked up for transport on January 17.”
Apparently what happens is that thieves hack into the computer system of the delivery company delivering the cars to the genuine owners.
Through this, they view delivery schedules and driver contact information and then change the destination addresses of such cars.
Narrating how their company suffered a similar fate, a transport company’s CEO Steven Yariv told WSVN: “the criminal actually hacked into the driver’s portal and knew what vehicles were being transported, they knew what was going on”.
“The thief happened to reach out to the driver acting as if he was the receiving party and gave him all the right information, told him where the car is supposed to go.”