Was This A Misunderstanding, Or An Attempt At Insurance Fraud?
SACRAMENTO COUNTY (CBS13) — It was tough to tell a disproportion between a disagreement and vigilant to mistreat for one Arden-area mom on Wednesday night. But when she saw a male on her fill-in camera screen, she suspicion he was there for a reason.
“I suspicion that he was perplexing to get me to strike him,” pronounced Leila Steffens.
It was only after 8 p.m. on Wednesday. She and her niece done a stop during Walgreens to collect adult a few things.
“We got behind in a automobile put it in retreat we only happened to peek adult into my small camera that we don’t always demeanour in and we saw something behind my van,” she said.
She suspicion it was a box of H2O she had lost to bucket in a van. But when she looked closer she satisfied it was a person. She waited about 30 seconds, meditative he would move. When she honked her horn, he came around to a driver’s side.
“And he pronounced “Oh sorry, we was only tyin’ my shoe’ and walked divided and we was thinkin’ ‘Right!’” She said.
Steffens couldn’t know because someone would wait behind a automobile for 30 seconds in a dark. She believes he had an agenda.
“So he could get some income or make an word explain or something,” Steffen’s said.
“If we shake someone down for money, it’s a crime,” pronounced Nancy Kincaid, orator for a California Department of Insurance. “If we record a explain opposite their insurance, fraudulently, that is word rascal and that is a transgression in California.”
Typically, people looking to make a dollar aim comparison citizens, dreaming drivers and in Steffen’s box – bustling moms.
“Be wakeful if someone has followed we out of a parking lot or opposite a parking lot and unexpected we don’t see them,” Kincaid said.
Steffens reported a occurrence to Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department though they told CBS13 that a act of perplexing to pretence a motorist isn’t a crime.
Still, Steffens pronounced she’s happy she didn’t strike a male and warns other drivers to keep their eyes peeled while subsidy up.
“Not everybody has a behind adult camera on their automobile and we could have simply ran him over,” Steffens said.
If we think that you’ve been a plant of word fraud, call a California Department of Insurance during 800-927-4357. But Kincaid’s best recommendation is to do what we can to strengthen yourself while driving.
“You’ve got to demeanour around we not once though some-more than once and make certain that it’s protected before we behind out,” Kincaid said.
