In a recent survey, over 11 million drivers confessed they would be prepared to lie to their insurers in order to ensure a payout. Do you think it’s ok to deceive greedy insurers, or is it a grand folly to lie in this way?
Insurers always have a way of finding out any lies. I think in the event of a claim its best to be straight with them otherwise you could be charged with fraud.
However, I think most people lie slightly on their quotes, such as the mileage or where you keep the car during the day for example.
Back in my home land, I used my mother address some 300 miles away to insure my car as it was so much cheaper. Not much of a lie, it was the atleast once every 3 months.....
Back in my home land, i crashed my Dad's Audi Quattro into a bridge while he was on holiday. He didn't mind too much about the car, but having to pay for a new bridge really ****ed him off.
When I first crashed my Volkswagen, I merely wrote my own insurance on a piece of scrap paper and wrote at the top 'Admiral Car INsuronce' (sic) with a crude drawing of said naval man.
I figured, which of these insurance companies looks the easiest to fool? And naturally, when I found out that the eponymous Admiral was in actuality not a real naval man, I thought they'd be the best candidates.
General Accident isn't a real General either, and i don't think Captain Birdseye ever actually earned his stripes.
At least not in the naval sense.
Churchill is just a puppet dog voiced by Vic Reeves, Privilege is simply a vehicle for Nigel Havers' great theatrical comeback, and Sheila's Wheels isn't even based in Australia, their office is in Gravesend.
Are we scamming the insurers, or are they scamming us?
Tell me lies
Posted - 09/05/2008 : 16:56:46
