NMVTIS Law Enforcement Working Group Update

NMVTIS Jurisdiction Success Stories

Group operates under the auspices of the AAMVA Law Enforcement Standing

Committee

The Working Group held it’s annual meeting April 26 – 27, 2017 in Arlington, VA.

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During the Annual Meeting, the Working Group reviewed and revised the Working Group’s Goals and Action Plans (AP):

• Goal 1 – Expand NMVTIS Awareness & Usage Among Law Enforcement

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Available to Download:http://www.aamva.org/NMVTIS-LE-Working-Group/

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AP 2: Re-Market NMVTIS to Current Law Enforcement Users

AP 3: Publish NMVTIS related articles (Ongoing)

- NMVTIS Article in “BJA Justice Today” Newsletter

- NMVTIS Article in IACP Police Chief Magazine and NSA Magazine

- Blogs or any other publications

AP 4: Develop educational NMVTIS Law Enforcement Presentation Template (for use at applicable conferences by any member of Working Group)

- Submitted to BJA (Pending Approval)

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• AP 5: Targeted marketing to existing claim search users (On-Going)

• AP 6: Enter common terms into website meta data (so searches result in NMVTIS link)

- Terms compiled and provided to AAMVA IT for Action

• AP 7: Submit NMVTIS success stories, summary quotes for Annual Report

• AP 8: Coordinate with AAMVA DMV Investigator Integration WG to improve NMVTIS awareness and use

• AP 9: Raise awareness and move toward having Canadian data in NMVTIS (Discuss October 2017)

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• Goal 2 – Continuously improve NMVTIS Law Enforcement Access Tool (LEAT)

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Action Plan in Support of Goal 2:

AP 1: Communicate to DOJ list of recommended LEAT Enhancements

- Expand capabilities and features for LEAT to improve user effectiveness

AP 2: Follow up with DOJ addressing need for non-sworn investigators to have NMVTIS LEAT Access

- (On-Going work on a pilot program)

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- This meeting also included a joint session with the NMVTIS Business Rules Working Group which resulted in valuable sharing of each other’s purpose, direction, and cross-pollination of ideas and challenges

- Progress reports on the Working Group’s action item list are posted and can be viewed at

http://www.aamva.org/NMVTIS-LE-Working-Group/

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• Unleashing the Power of NMVTIS

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How a vehicle seller becomes the victim of fraud

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• Franklin agrees to buy Porsche from Murray for $23,400. Murray still owes $31,000 to Wells Fargo. This takes place in Grand Rapids, MI

• Franklin agrees to pay Wells Fargo $31,000 to pay off loan. Franklin says “great”, I will give you a $7600 cashiers check and the car.

• A few days later, Wells Fargo advises check cleared and account is closed.

• Franklin takes possession of Porsche and cashes cashier’s check immediately

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• An Iowa couple, Amanda & Preston, spot this beautiful Porsche for sale in Chicago. They agree to meet a man in a Chicago parking lot and purchase the car for $11,000

• Former Porsche owner Murray is notified by Wells Fargo that the cashiers check is no good, the $31,000 loan still stands

• Amanda and Preston title the car in Iowa, forgetting what they paid for the car and state $7,500 on title application

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• Murray files a police report with Grands Rapids, MI police who list the vehicle as stolen

• Murray contacts Michigan DMV authorities and reports what happened. Michigan DMV check NMVTIS and discover vehicle titled in Iowa, contact Iowa DMV Investigative Bureau

• Iowa Investigators interview Amanda who states, “I knew it” when confronted with the fact the Porsche is stolen

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“Franklin” cashing cashier’s check -Iowa

customer advises this is

NOT the person that

sold them the car

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• Iowa DOT legal team reviewed the case

• Iowa buyer failed to do due diligence before purchase

• Vehicle returned to the original victim (Murray), Amanda and Preston told to seek legal council. Their insurance company would not cover the loss. Used $11K from savings to buy vehicle

• The bank surveillance photo was checked through facial recognition and has a potential match that is under investigation

• Original victim (Murray) now has Porsche back with $31,000 loan plus is out the extra $7,600

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How the New York DMV Improved Title Issuance Efficiency and Fraud Detection with NMVTIS

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• Prior to the use of NMVTIS, New York DMV manually reviewed all title applications with out of state titles

• The problems identified took considerable time to resolve resulting in delays of processing, sometimes over three months

• Now, all title applications with out of state titles are run through NICB and NMVTIS

• Problems found include such things as salvage and brand bypass, purged thefts, and export fraud

• Application process time is now within three weeks

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• Prior to NMVTIS, NY DMV accepted paper certificates of destruction from scrapyards

• With NMVTIS, destruction data files from NMVTIS update NY DMV database and flag VIN’s destroyed

• This change eliminated between 300,000 –400,000 batches of paperwork mailed to the DMV and processed annually

• NMVTIS also stopped and detected fraud!

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NMVTIS Alert for 2011 Lexus

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Counterfeit VIN’s from 2011 Lexus

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1972 Pontiac Trans Am – Purged Stolen

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1967 Ford Mustang – Purged Stolen

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1967 Jaguar Convertible – Purged Stolen

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For More Information

Contact:

Paul Steier

Law Enforcement Program Manager

psteier@aamva.org

703-270-8932

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