A Fraud Squad spokesman said yesterday they had "effectively shut down" the scam at Clark's warehouse on the Lanarkshire town's Greenhill Industrial Estate.
Willie McGee, a former Garda fraud squad detective, said people are tempted to burn out cars they could not longer afford to pay for or abandon them to make it appear they had been stolen.
Coventry Cllr Phil Townshend said: "If you receive a 419 letter, do the right thing and hand it in to your local police station, marked for the attention of the fraud squad."
Fraud squad officers arrested a man in connection with their investigation into the American Massacre Appeal, which approached many individuals and organisations for donations.
TORY leader William Hague has renewed calls for Millennium Dome Minister Lord Falconer to be sacked - after it was revealed that the fraud squad are probing a contract at the troubled attraction.
The Coventry North-west MP spoke out today after it emerged the Serious Fraud Squad was looking at the business dealings of TransTec plc, which went into liquidation in December 1999 after an pounds 11 million liability to Ford was kept hidden from directors.
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