car-ringing
n.— «The social costs of car-cloning can be as invidious as the economic ones.…Car-ringing—as it’s known—is part of a mounting identity fraud crime wave.» —“Got an identity crisis? Join the queue” by Christopher Browne Observer (U.K.) June 19, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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