A woman lays on the road next to an overturned moped. Scammers will often make a show of throwing their moped on the ground and pretending to be injured before taking photos of the wreck. Photo: Евгений Шемякин/Adobe Stock

A recent investigation in the U.K. led by the Insurance Fraud Bureau (IFB), the City of London Police's Insurance Fraud Enforcement Department (IFED) and several insurers showed an estimated 2,250 people in London have been victims of crash for cash schemes involving mopeds in the last two years. These moped incidents have become so frequent that IFB Director Ursula Jallow referred to them as an "epidemic."

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