You are in a parking lot and you carefully back out. The path seems clear, but there is an unexpected bang that doesn’t make sense. You stop and see that you just hit another car (most likely older), but you can’t understand how this happened.
You wonder why they kept driving when they saw you coming out and could have avoided the impact. A couple of people from a third car come out and say they witnessed the accident and it was your fault, although you know it was not.
Then, the driver you hit says: “It’s okay, just give me $400 and I forget about my bumper”, while the “witnesses”, who are his partners, suggest that this might be the best solution you have, if you don’t want to get your insurance involved.
How to avoid: don’t pay them a dime. Use this phone to snap a few pictures and also request all their identification. If you go to war, you need to know who you’re fighting against.