The Western India Automobile Association (WIAA), Mumbai, will provide free guidance to people who are keen to buy second hand vehicles, especially due to cases of many buyers getting duped by scamsters in the COVID lockdown, using unique modus operandi.

Nitin Dossa, chairman of WIAA, the 101-year-old automobile association, said, "We realised that during the COVID-19 lockdown, many fraudsters used different modus operandi to dupe the innocent public. We have now learnt about a scam in second hand car deals, and hence are keen to provide assistance to people to ensure they don`t fall in the trap of lucrative schemes or assurances from a dealer or individual. People can write to us on wiaa@wiaaindia.com or nitin.dossa@gmail.com".