LAHORE: When the multinational automobile industry is using the most advanced technology to introduce new security features to prevent vehicle theft incidents, thieves are coming up with (bad) technology to beat the security features.
The police recently busted an inter-provincial gang of ‘digitally-equipped car lifting gang’ which would take away expensive keyless cars only to be sold at throwaway prices in the markets of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP).
The gang was led by Afnan Khan (26), a BSc (Hons) from a KP university, who smartly used his ‘educated boy looks’ as a major tool to dodge the targeted people as at first glance no one can believe that he was a professional car thief or criminal.
Afnan bought an automotive key programming tool for Rs150,000 to start car theft.
He is in the custody of the Anti-Vehicle Lifting Squad (AVLS), Lahore, which traced and arrested him at Nawab Town on Tuesday last after efforts of two weeks after the theft of many luxury keyless cars from the city.
“I got involved in the car theft crime while browsing cyber tools on my mobile phone,” he told Dawn.
When he explored the tool, he found that keyless cars are an easy target.
The first car he stole was sold out at Rs800,000.
‘The automotive key programming tool helps to steal a car within 10 minutes,” he said. First, jammers are used to deactivate the mobile phone network (in a few meter radius), the tracker and the entire built-in security system of the car.
He said the built-in security...
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