America: Starting with Daily Intelligence
Chapter 45 - 45 45 VT Exchange

45: Chapter 45 VT Exchange 45: Chapter 45 VT Exchange “Are you a professional theft team?

How many people are in your team?”

During the waiting time, Allen Zhang also inquired about their profession.

“We are not professionals.

Besides us, there are two other people in the team.

We usually are only responsible for keeping watch and tailing, while the other two handle the thefts.

We’ve only done it a couple of times.”

“We collaborate with a Black Market second-hand car dealership owner who runs a vehicle modification shop and a scrap yard.

On regular days, he also does business in reselling vehicles, dealing with many street gangs, hiring people to engage in tasks like stealing bicycles, or cars left unclaimed on the streets for a long time, such as abandoned or collateral vehicles.”

The homeless man answered nervously and spilled all he knew about the insider dealings.

Abandoned cars are typically left by their owners due to family issues or because the owners simply got detained or couldn’t get out.

Collateral and stolen vehicles, or those abandoned by criminals after crimes.

If a car is left idle on the side for too long, they would choose to take it or have it towed away for recycling.

If the car is in good condition, they would refurbish and modify it; if not, they would dismantle it and sell the parts.

After modification, the cars are rebranded and sold off to distant rural areas.

Many on the streets specialize in this business, some even unethically, not caring whether the car is abandoned or in regular use, simply smashing the window and driving it away.

Handling abandoned cars does not violate the law and is less likely to cause trouble, but openly stealing cars can lead to serious trouble, even more severe than illegal possession of firearms in California.

“So, this means that the second-hand car dealership owner’s influence and business are not small?”

Allen pondered and asked, “Are you very familiar with that owner?

Where does he usually do business?”

“He rarely shows up in public, and has a modification shop in the suburbs.

We’ve only met him twice and don’t know him well.”

The homeless people seemed embarrassed.

They exchanged looks and answered honestly, “We can tell you the location.

In the city, it’s a place called Mike’s Scrap Yard, and in the suburbs, it’s at the Car Graveyard.

If you search it on Google Maps, it will take about an hour and a half drive from here to get there.”

“In the suburbs?

Then forget it.”

Allen’s brows relaxed; he currently had no time to travel that far to the Car Graveyard.

Driving would take an hour and a half, and biking would take at least two hours, making it dark by the time of return.

The suburbs have a very high danger coefficient, being a highly hazardous wild zone with coyotes, pumas, and criminals engaging in illegal trades at gas stations.

You never know whether the freezer trucks passing by you might have someone’s organs in them.

Although the inner-city poor streets are dangerous, they are still under some control by civil laws, not as outrageous as the suburbs, which are just pure dark forests.

Allen used to run a small workshop in the mountains and abandoned factories away from the city center, and not shipping goods on time would have led to severe consequences; he remembers this very well.

Allen then asked for more details about the business.

Under his intimidating presence, the homeless man spoke without holding back.

This line of work is quite intricate and demands perfection, even identifying abandoned cars that are unlikely to be reclaimed by their owners or have no chance of being reclaimed.

If you happen to deal with a car where the owner is only away for a few months, and you take it, it can be troublesome if the owner reports it to the police later.

It’s best to look for cars that are completely abandoned, not those halfway there.

If an old car has no significant value, and the market has newer, incompatible parts which can’t be used or sold, then there is no recycling value at all.

Valuable abandoned cars usually won’t be parked in communities or on streets for more than a month, because once identified as an abandoned car, it will be taken the next day.

People in this business are very competitive.

Mobile vehicles are easy to identify – their license plates and environmental logos are usually updated within a recent few years.

Even if it’s an old worn-out car, determining the vehicle’s condition only requires checking the wear and tear on the tires, the brake discs, and the color of the carbon buildup in the tailpipe exhaust to know if the owner has driven it recently.

People in this business are also very savvy, generally opting to install a paid app called ‘Vehicle Transfer,’ known in abbreviation as VT Exchange.

The prototype is a vehicle information software produced by the Los Angeles traffic management department, similar to the traffic management 12123, intended to facilitate car owners in paying fines, confirming vehicle violation information and conditions, and calling for towing with one click.

Later, it was hacked and stolen, resulting in the leakage of vehicle and customer information, and a black market trading software app commonly used by used-car dealers was duplicated.

As long as a vehicle has not been moved for a long time, it will receive a prompt, and it’s also possible to pay for a location inquiry to find some related news and the condition of the car owner.

But most of the news is unreliable, similar to the Quora model of reward-based queries.

This app often experiences delays in updates and smoke bombs, with information lagging and not very accurate because it competes with the Los Angeles traffic management department in a battle of wits, and the website sometimes gets attacked and paralyzed, or even forcibly 404’d.

The situation is like those death-or-life fee-based gentleman’s movie website producers in China, exposing bits and pieces.

[Vehicle Recovery LV0: Involves information on the recovery of vehicles.]

Allen couldn’t help but marvel at how the West Coast is truly full of talent, with opportunities everywhere.

He used to do vehicle recovery tasks in GTA too, but he didn’t expect that the people here in reality play even wilder games.

Allen, following the link sent by them and under the hands-on teaching of the homeless, found the official website to download the software and registered an account using a fake driver’s license identity, passing facial recognition.

But a membership registration fee of 20 US dollars or an equivalent amount of USDT virtual coin is still required.

Under Allen’s intimidating gaze, the homeless felt a tingling scalp, and one of them immediately stood up and offered to pay the money!

Allen immediately burst into joyful laughter, patting his shoulder vigorously, truly a good brother.

The homeless forced a smile and hurriedly used his own virtual coins to pay the 20 USDT.

Allen, holding his phone, was completely absorbed in the process of understanding the software, while his good brothers began to guide him with their advice.

The homeless man who paid the 20u felt sore as he walked to the side, secretly pulling open his clothes to see his shoulder bruised in shades of blue and purple, red as if beaten with a stick, some areas even swollen.

Mad, what a humanoid beast, these bruises won’t go away for two days!

The homeless man felt uncomfortable all over, thinking he might die!

He immediately took out a pain reliever from his pocket, lit a leaf brand cigarette, and instantly felt a soothing relief in his body, his shoulder no longer hurt, and his legs no longer ached.

Morphine with marijuana, blissfully divine.

In just a few minutes, Allen mastered the app’s usage guide.

In short, the software has two versions: a free version and a paid version.

The free version only refreshes ordinary vehicle information, which isn’t very valuable, but the positioning system can still be used as navigation software.

The paid version includes vehicle trade information and other template functions, as well as a chat window.

People also post hiring information on it, like if someone needs a certain car, you get it for me, and I pay you money.

Allen saw that someone had posted a job offer three streets away from him, needing a newly launched etnies skateboard.

But his good brothers told him it was phishing information!

Posted by the police, you’d get caught if you go there.

You need to switch to Stealth Mode first, open the police activity tracker, and then scrutinize the task list.

Allen did as they said, and indeed saw many map icons for buildings and police activities, with himself and a few others shown as gray avatars.

Once the other party also activated Stealth Mode, those avatars disappeared, leaving only himself on the map.

After adding each other as friends, the gray avatars turned into transparent light green.

Mad, like a beefed-up version of Waze.

Waze is a navigation app similar to Amap and Baidu Maps.

It features live traffic information and cameras, even real-time killer locations; you can find nearby shop information and whether police are active nearby on the app.

Originally intended to seek prompt police assistance during driving incidents, the technology has now been hacked and utilized in all kinds of black market software, even effectively helping to evade police patrols.

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