Odometer Fraud - Rollback Rip-off!

That shiny, beautiful, freshly detailed, never been in a wreck, gotta buy it today, low mileage, late model, previously owned car or truck may be your worst nightmare. The extra money you took out of savings to buy this vehicle may have just been ripped off by a thief. You may have just become a victim of odometer fraud.

Federal and state laws are in place to protect you from this crime. It is a felony for anyone to knowingly tamper with, adjust, alter, set back, disconnect, or fail to connect an odometer of a motor vehicle, so as to reflect a lower mileage than the motor vehicle has actually been driven, or to supply any written odometer statement knowing such statement to be false or based on mileage figures reflected by an odometer that has been tampered with or altered.

When the above law is violated, title fraud and grand theft, both felonies, are also added to the list of arrest charges against the violator. The three felonies each carry a fine as much as $5,000.00 and/or five years in a state prison or both such fine or imprisonment.

Source:

• "Buyer Beware-Mileage Ripoff", Florida Highway Patrol
  

Resources:

• "Office of Odometer Fraud Investigation", National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
• "Uncovering Odometer Fraud", Carfax.
• "Odometer Tampering and Fraud", website.
• "Federal Odometer tampering Statutes", US Department of Justice.