hub@fortune.UUCP (Hub Steenbakkers) (01/22/86)
Many of you out there are branded with traffic violations on your DMV record, causing insurance rates to go up considerably. Wouldn't it be nice to get a clean record. Consider the following scam: "Move" to another state or country which doesn't get your DMV record from California (or wherever), get a new license (complete with clean record), and shortly thereafter repeat the process "moving" back home and getting new California license (and DMV record). When you get a new license you have to give up your old license (usually). Does anyone see any major loopholes in this one?
goudreau@dg_rtp.UUCP (01/25/86)
In article <5840@fortune.UUCP> hub@fortune.UUCP (Hub Steenbakkers) writes: >Many of you out there are branded with traffic violations on your >DMV record, causing insurance rates to go up considerably. >Wouldn't it be nice to get a clean record. Consider the following scam: >"Move" to another state or country which doesn't get your DMV record >from California (or wherever), get a new license (complete with clean >record), and shortly thereafter repeat the process "moving" back home >and getting new California license (and DMV record). When you get a >new license you have to give up your old license (usually). > >Does anyone see any major loopholes in this one? I don't know about every state, but when I moved from MA to NC this past year and got a NC license, one of the questions the DMV asked was whether I had ever held a license in NC before. Of course, you could always lie about this, but the red tape might eventually unwind. Then they could punish you for falsifying your application. It wouldn't be too hard for them to run a routine check on your name or (especially) your Social Security Number and thus nab you. Bob Goudreau
chris@umcp-cs.UUCP (Chris Torek) (01/25/86)
At least in Maryland, ploys are unnecessary. After three years without moving violations, you may have your driving record expunged. Of course, you must have been a licensed driver during that time (but you need not even have owned a car). I am not positive about the three years; I really remember `a fairly small odd number'. -- In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci Dept (+1 301 454 4251) UUCP: seismo!umcp-cs!chris CSNet: chris@umcp-cs ARPA: chris@mimsy.umd.edu
ron@brl-smoke.ARPA (Ron Natalie <ron>) (01/28/86)
>In article <5840@fortune.UUCP> hub@fortune.UUCP (Hub Steenbakkers) writes: >Many of you out there are branded with traffic violations on your >DMV record, causing insurance rates to go up considerably. >Wouldn't it be nice to get a clean record. Consider the following scam: >"Move" to another state or country which doesn't get your DMV record >from California (or wherever), get a new license (complete with clean >record), and shortly thereafter repeat the process "moving" back home >and getting new California license (and DMV record). When you get a >new license you have to give up your old license (usually). > >Does anyone see any major loopholes in this one? > Yeah, it won't work in Maryland. When I moved back into the state I went to take the written test again as if I had lived out of state all my life and wanted a Maryland license. They couldn't figure out why I wanted a license because there computer dumped out my complete driver's history again including a notation that Colorado had taken my MD license in exchage for theirs. Finally, they just ended up giving me a "duplicate" license. Obviously, moving away did no good. By the way, moving won't help with revokation and other heavy things like that as there is a national database that prevents you from getting drivers licenses in multiple states or getting a license in a state after yours has been revoked in another. -Ron
ark@alice.UucP (Andrew Koenig) (01/29/86)
> Obviously, moving away did no good. By the way, moving won't help with > revokation and other heavy things like that as there is a national database > that prevents you from getting drivers licenses in multiple states or getting > a license in a state after yours has been revoked in another. Not only that, but even if they make a mistake, that doesn't necessarily do you any good. For instance, I know one person who was arrested for driving while his name was on the revoked list. He was convicted, even though his name was placed on the list due to an error, he had never been notified that his name was on the list, and he had never done anything that should have caused his name to be placed there.