Hi car-talkers. A friend got delivery of a 1998 toyota Camry XLE a month ago from Cotonou for 750k! I told him the custom papers handed over with the car might not be genuine going by the car's landing cost. He insisted how the dealer has told him the vehicle was with genuine paper. I spoke with another friend who is a custom officer. He asked us to scan the document to him. Lo and behold, the paper was arrangee type not genuine.
Here are my questions:
1. How can one identifies a faked custom paper by mere looking at it.

2. Is it possible to make genuine a car with faked paper and how.

From what I've been reading and stories I've heard, most people buying cars older than 10-15 years risk being issued fake or duplicate car documents meaning the agents or anyone handling the car validation process might clear that old car with others and just register only one or two cars, and duplicate the documents to cover the other cars he is importing. Most agents or car handlers do this because of the age restriction policies on cars being imported.