Consumerprotect:
Have you ever wondered how most of the Vehicles brought into the country after the closure of the land borders get original verifiable custom documents?

Here is one of the ways.

Assume vehicle is a 2010 Acura RDX with VIN: 1234567891011121

Client pays for Vehicle in cotonu and goes back home to wait for Vehicle delivery.

The smuggler contacts His Custom Buddies, and they Begin a search on the customs database for a Matching Vehicle (2010 Acura RDX)

They find one with a custom duty paid for in 2012, with VIN: 1314151617181920

The documents transfered to the smuggler in cotonu.

Next, a set of very skilled crafts men are employed to modify and create new VIN stickers and install them on the vehicle.

The customs only use the last 6 digits of the vin on a vehicle.

The craftsmen remove all vin stickers and Vin plates on the vehicle and recreate a new vin that will contain the last 6 digits of the original document, while leaving the first 10digits of your vehicle alone.

They go as far as removing the vehicles Windshield to replace plates, and cutting of engraved Vin on frame. In some cases they leave the frame blank, in other cases they engrave new Vin numbers to match document.

At the end of this procedure the vin would look something like this. 1234567890181920.

this is just 1 of the few ways smuggled cars are brought in.

I will be revealing more methods in due course.

jarkbauer:
I think you can also get the VIN through the OBD2 scanner. Can they change that too?

Consumerprotect:
Have you ever wondered how most of the Vehicles brought into the country after the closure of the land borders get original verifiable custom documents?

Here is one of the ways.

Assume vehicle is a 2010 Acura RDX with VIN: 1234567891011121

Client pays for Vehicle in cotonu and goes back home to wait for Vehicle delivery.

The smuggler contacts His Custom Buddies, and they Begin a search on the customs database for a Matching Vehicle (2010 Acura RDX)

They find one with a custom duty paid for in 2012, with VIN: 1314151617181920

The documents transfered to the smuggler in cotonu.

Next, a set of very skilled crafts men are employed to modify and create new VIN stickers and install them on the vehicle.

The customs only use the last 6 digits of the vin on a vehicle.

The craftsmen remove all vin stickers and Vin plates on the vehicle and recreate a new vin that will contain the last 6 digits of the original document, while leaving the first 10digits of your vehicle alone.

They go as far as removing the vehicles Windshield to replace plates, and cutting of engraved Vin on frame. In some cases they leave the frame blank, in other cases they engrave new Vin numbers to match document.

At the end of this procedure the vin would look something like this. 1234567890181920.

this is just 1 of the few ways smuggled cars are brought in.

I will be revealing more methods in due course.

johnabraham:
Won't they face issues while registering vehicle here in lagos? Because data base cannot register 2 vehicles with same vin