Abstract
Keywords : Automotive Fraud, Automotive Maintenance Fraud, Used Vehicles
With the globalization of automotive industry all related automotive business activities are becoming global - automotive fraud, and in particular vehicle maintenance, associated with insurance fraud is a good example. Like many other supplier-to-customer based processes, vehicle maintenance fraud is almost always being significantly represented in the international trade of goods and services. The price of new cars has climbed steadily over the past few years (excluding last few months) making used cars more attractive than ever. Buying a used car is a great way to make money economy, particularly in the case of less developed market. On the other hand, there are scam artists all around the world working hard to take advantage of unsuspecting buyers. This is particularly the case of imported second hand cars from one (more developed) to another (less developed) country. A number of automotive frauds was elaborated in this paper with the particular emphasis of automotive maintenance frauds. Some typical examples are demonstrated