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Odometer rollbacks are rising again

The latest numbers show that odometer manipulation is not a niche scam, it is a fast-growing business model for bad actors in ...
Odometer fraud is surging across the U.S., with an estimated 2.45 million vehicles on the road suspected of having falsified ...
Millions of used cars may not be telling the truth about their mileage, and new data shows the problem is growing faster than ...
Odometer rollback fraud affects 2.45 million cars on the road. Buyers overpay by $3,300 on average without knowing it. ...
CARFAX estimates tens of thousands of vehicles in the state are suspected of having their odometers rolled back, a scam that experts say can happen in seconds. The owner of Atlanta Speedometer in ...
It is thought to be a thing of the past, a huckster in a tweed jacket skimming miles off an odometer at a used car lot to squeeze a buyer for more cash. But the more things change, the more they stay ...
Buying a used car can feel like a crapshoot and things get even harder when people game the system. However, the wheels of justice have come for an Ohio dealer who allegedly rolled back odometers on ...
A Kansas businessman who was indicted Monday on charges connected to altering vehicle odometers is the latest case of odometer fraud in the United States, a crime that costs American car buyers more ...
Odometer tampering might not make it to our list of the 10 worst car scams, yet a lot of car buyers still fall for it. If you come across a low-mileage used car that seems like a one-in-a-million find ...
MADISON, Wis. -- Monday is National Odometer Day, and the Wisconsin Department of Transportation Division of Motor Vehicles said odometer rollbacks accounted for nearly $37 million in fraud loss in ...
This million-mile mileage is unbelievable—so much so that TikTok viewers are questioning how the driver could possibly rack up an odometer reading so high. The flashionNova (@flashionnova) TikTok ...
Dear Car Talk: I understand that most modern cars have electronic speedometers and odometers, and that the odometer mileage is stored in some sort of flash (non-volatile) memory, so it’s not lost if ...