CRASH PEST DUMMY: Fraudster’s Hilarious Crash For Cash Scam

This is the moment a crash-for-cash fraudster leans to roll with it when his bizarre scam flops.

His spectacularly over-the-top bid to fleece a motorist over a faked crash went viral after it was captured on the driver’s dashcam in the area of Mong Kok, Kowloon, Hong Kong, on 1st January.

In the footage, the driver turns a corner slowly when a man suddenly runs in front of her.

As she slows to less than walking pace she tries to steer around him but he changes direction and drops his torso on the car’s bonnet in slow motion.

Then – in apparent agony – he screams and throws himself backwards and rolls around in a complete circle for more than a minute.

A man suddenly runs onto the road and dashes into a car in Mong Kok, Hong Kong, Sunday, Jan. 1, 2023. As he collided with the car, he slowly slid off and pretended to be hurt before rolling on the road. (AsiaWire)

But his scam is foiled when an ambulance – passing by chance – stops to see what is going on.

As the fraudster continues to roll, the paramedics park and walk towards him.

But when he realises that medical experts will see he does not even have a scratch from the faked collision, he flees.

Scammers attempting to claim injuries from car accidents are known as “porcelain” in the way they seem to break at the slightest touch.

A man suddenly runs onto the road and dashes into a car in Mong Kok, Hong Kong, Sunday, Jan. 1, 2023. As he collided with the car, he slowly slid off and pretended to be hurt before rolling on the road. (AsiaWire)

Online commentators compared the man to soccer star Neymar and joked that he must be relative because of his theatrical injury appeals.