I suffered identity theft after shipping a car - has this happened to anyone else?
My brother gave his car to me, and we shipped it. After I called my insurance company and added the car to my policy, I got a letter in the mail that a new policy was created with a different company. Someone had my address, but used a fake email address to create the policy. I didn't submit any payment because I didn't create the policy. However, when I cancelled the policy, the insurance company sent a refund to the identity thief. And the original payment bounced, so the insurance company asked me to pay it back.
My neighbor is an insurance salesman and speculated that the person might have reported the car as stolen in the future to try to get payment, if I hadn't cancelled the policy.
When a broker gathers quotes from drivers, I don't know how much of your personal information goes out. Assuming it's not broadcast to the universe of drivers, then only 5 parties knew my car was being shipped - my brother, me, the broker, the driver, and my insurance company.