A video clip showing a person in a bear costume faking an attack on luxury cars to scam insurance companies is once again going viral with over a million views across X and other platforms, bringing back one of the most absurd fraud cases we’ve seen in a while. This whole crazy story originally broke in November 2024 but resurfaced in late March 2026 thanks to the raw surveillance footage making the rounds.
According to a 2024 BBC report, on January 28, 2024, four people allegedly staged “bear attacks” on a 2010 Rolls-Royce Ghost, a 2015 Mercedes G63 AMG, and a 2022 Mercedes E35 in Lake Arrowhead, California. They claimed a real bear had somehow entered these cars and trashed their interiors. To back up their claims, they submitted fuzzy nighttime surveillance video footage to three different insurers, hoping to fraudulently net a whopping $141,839 in total.
