Websites are popping up that offer individuals money for reporting license plates of vehicles in their neighborhoods. Apparently some of the sites are suppose to make it easier for repo companies to locate vehicles when someone defaults on their loan.
Sounds like an easy way for those dealerships that like to tell their customers to just let their car go back to make a quick buck.
Other sites however say that the license plate number collecting will help police officers locate vehicles when Amber Alerts are issued. How ever I'm sure that law enforcement groups would be using this information for other purposes as well.
The latter does sound like a good reason for collecting the information. After all, who wouldn't want to help a child be found that was kidnapped or gone missing? You would think there would be a better way of going about getting the informaiton collected though.
"Hey honey, you take one side of the street and I'll take the other. Just tell Fred we're checking to see if anyone's license plate numbers are being used on stolen cars or something."
Sounds kinda crazy. The Better Business Bureau has decided it sounds crazy as well and is beginning to take a look at many of the sites.
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