>helping my dad sell a car >most people ask for VIN >he doesn't want to give it out, "They can come look at the Carfax when they look at the vehicle, I don't want people doing any shady stuff with the VIN"
Alright Veeky Forums, what in the fuck could someone possibly do if they have the VIN for a car you're selling? Is there *any* reason not to put the VIN in the craigslist ad?
Adrian Smith
your dad is afraid the thieves might download your car.
Logan Murphy
You're dad needs to stop watching so much CNN. Or Fox News. Or whatever scare tactic major news network he follows. CL even has a spot where you are supposed to enter the VIN when you sell a car.
Same with people blocking license plates too. So retarded.
This. It's a dangerous world.
Carter Diaz
He really is.
Austin Garcia
THE ALMIGHTY
Robert Ward
Just look at the Carfax or any VIN report yourself. The most you can find about the owner is in what state and when the car was registered last.
Cameron Collins
OP here.
That's something I've never understood either.
What could someone possibly do if they had your license plate number?
Hunter Richardson
tell your dad he is the one making it look sketchy to sell the car. If someone doesn't want to show me a VIN it's pretty much a red flag.
Carter Foster
I'm gonna start lurking CL just to find these people and bug the hell out of them for the VIN. Send them like 50 emails saying I will buy the car today if they send me a VIN so I can Carfax it.
Only way you can pull anything from a plate is if you are in law enforcement and using anything like that for personal use will be the end of your career real quick.
Noah Davis
I like when they do that because if its too brown I pass on the vehical.
William Reyes
kek >nice try poojeet. I can smell your car from here
Zachary Morgan
Where do you get your news, don't tell me CNN
Tyler Myers
Post the add the I'll be sure to let him know that but for his stupidity, I would buy the car right now.
Samuel Collins
I bet he's afraid of giving out a mileage since that's specific to each car. Huh.
Hunter Stewart
>but for his stupidity, I would buy the car right now. Took me a few seconds to understand what you were saying. Is English not your mother tongue?
Nah it's a basically brand new 2014 Wrangler, like 5,000 miles on it. He's not trying to scam anyone, he's worried about *getting* scammed somehow. The dumb thing is he's not some inbred hillbilly redneck, he's a college-educated commercial real estate appraiser.
Blake Baker
>The dumb thing is he's not some inbred hillbilly redneck, he's a college-educated commercial real estate appraiser. Even the hick will list his VIN user...
Ryan Peterson
from /news/ and /pol/ where else would I go?
Liam Thomas
Then he must be an alien
Jayden Hill
>what in the fuck could someone possibly do if they have the VIN for a car you're selling?
Look, tell your dad that everytime he parks his car anywhere, his plates and VIN are available for anyone that walks by. If the VIN was usable, then there would be a billion scams per day, right? After all, look at all the VINs out there right now in the shopping mall parking lot.
Or is your dad too scared to even park the car in public because someone might get the VIN?
Nathan Gutierrez
literally nothing, you can view anybody's fucking VIN in a parking lot. years back i bought a Nissan Skyline from a kid and said id buy it if i could run the VIN at the registry to make sure its a clean title, he said the VIN is private information until i bought the car. nearly pissed my pants when he took 2 days of fighting to give it to me
John Morris
Absolutely nothing. There is no such thing as a "license plate scan" available to the general public. It's an internal database reserved for law enforcement. The one thing that someone CAN potentially do with a license plate is apparently it doubles as a VIN, so you can get a car/vin report that the plate is currently registered to, but that is it. Absolutely no personally identifiable information is disclosed and anyone that says otherwise is a retard
Eli Gray
>It's an internal database reserved for law enforcement. Exactly this. The only people who can find PII from your VIN/plate are law enforcement and Shaniqua at the DOL. Either way that is highly illegal.
Guarantee OP's dad will invite the random strangers to meet at his home and think nothing of it.
OP, tell your dad to stop being a fag.
Adrian Harris
>OP, tell your dad to stop being a fag. Done and done. I just wanted to see if anyone other than police could do anything at illicit at all with a VIN. Looks like I was right.
Mason Scott
people post their vins up here all the time. I was nervous when i posted my vin on Veeky Forums but then i realized theres not really anything they can find. Unless dad stole the car.
Daniel Price
Russians might hack the car
William Bailey
THE CARFAX IS CLEAN >doesnt post vin
i close those tabs and buy somthing else
Leo King
Actually with your plate its a small fee at the court house and they then have your address, could then go to your house, and then steal your car. If they were so inclined.
Angel Bell
>PPI is not protected Only in ur shit state user. Mostly, I feel you are full of shit. PPI is OUO exempt from the FFI. kys.
Samuel Morgan
State of Georgia and yeah it is that simple
Blake Cruz
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Evan Myers
Report it stolen.
Owen Cox
But... then you'd just show the cops the title in your name. Or they'd run the plate.
I mean, I would hope that's how it goes anyway
Jack Wood
>What could someone possibly do if they had your license plate number? Actually, that's not entirely accurate. Carfax has a thing now where you can pull the VIN from the plate. I use it all the time.
Granted, when I'm selling a car I take the plates off to take pictures, but I still post the damn VIN.
Cameron Brown
>hi I'd like to report my car being stolen What is your name >uhhhhhhhhhh