Medialink: Stealing Your Car's Identity

--Afraid someone might try to steal your identity? How about your car's identity? A new form of car theft is taking place involving vehicle identification numbers -- and it's costing more than $4 billion a year. Thieves steal VIN numbers to hide the fact that a car is stolen. They then register the stolen car under the new VIN number to hide its history -- and keep it out of law enforcement databases.

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