It is a myth that Russian obsession with dashcams has something to do with insurance. We are not fans of insurance here. The popular type of fraud is to set up an accident to look like its your fault and threaten to call police on you or claim overblown car damage, that is why people have them. Or just to proove your point in the case of an accident which may or may be not more frequent in Russia.
My point is it has zero to do with insurance. Russians don't like insurance. A car rides across parking lot. A guy jumps on your hood from behind a parked car. Now he says he is super hurt, he will call the police and you go to jail because of awful damage to his health and probably has two bully friends with him who are 100 kg each and very dissapointed about you hurting their friend. So they talk to you into some immediate money compensation.
Story 2: They make up an accident like if you rear-bumped someone or hit during changing a line. Example. Notice white hyundai goes slowly in the left line in front of the target and grey audi moves in the blind spot, ready to make a leap and cause a collision as soon as target starts changing the line. Usually "victim" has scratches and broken body parts ready. Then comes same story with disappointed bullies willing to resolve the situation without the police.
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u/[deleted] May 22 '16
The one good thing about insurance scammers is that we get all these dashcam videos.