Moment key-less car 'crook' tries to steal £130,000 Aston Martin from driveway in the dead of night
This is the moment a brazen key-less car thief tries to steal £130,000 Aston Martin from a driveway in the middle of the night.
This is the moment a brazen key-less car thief tries to steal £130,000 Aston Martin from a driveway in the middle of the night.
A man wearing all black and a balaclava over his face was captured on the owners Ring security camera at around 5am on September 10 holding an antenna up above his head near the house.
The antenna is used to pick up a signal from the owners key, which includes a code for disarming the cars security system and is relayed to the vehicle.
If successful, the cloned signal convinces the car that the key is nearby and allows the engine to start.
However, the man leaves empty handed as the one minute and 32 second CCTV footage comes to an end and the silver 202mph Aston Martin Vantage remains on the drive at the home in Southgate, north London.
A man wearing all black and a balaclava over his face was captured on the owners Ring security camera
The man stands next to the £130,000 Aston Martin with an antenna which is used to pick up a signal from the owners key inside the home
In a key-less car theft last year, a £350,000 Rolls-Royce was stolen in just 30 seconds.
According the Sun, a friend of the owner said the victim was stunned and devastated that their luxury SUV was stolen from outside their door.
Earlier this year, a car thief revealed how he can steal any vehicle in seconds using a £15,000 readily available kit which is legal to buy in the UK.
Former dirt racer Mark McCann hired a real life car thief to show him how he would steal a £60,000 Range Rover SVR from a Tescos car park in an alarming video that lifts the lid on how the criminals operate.
In the video, posted to his YouTube channel with more than 240,000 subscribers, Mark meets a man dressed in a black balaclava who demonstrates how to use the state of the art equipment to steal the four by four.
Car thieves are known to use a keyless relay device to fool cars into thinking that their real keys are nearby - a feature of high-end cars that allow doors to be unlocked and cars to be started without using the key.
However this new technique seems much more risk averse, with thieves not needing to be in the vicinity of the vehicle in order to steal it, nor do they need to imitate the owners key in order to gain access.
Instead, it requires a kit that the video claims can be bought from the dark web for £15,000. To demonstrate how the kit works, Mark hires a car thief to steal his mothers car as part of a staged routine.
Cars are often stolen to order and are shipped in containers which prevent trackers from locating them while they are sent overseas to be either sold whole or traded for parts.
Another tactic used involves jamming the lock signal as the owner presses the button and walks away thinking their car is secure.
Motorists are advised to keep keys in secure pouches or locked away in a box to block hackers signals. The devices can be purchased for as little as £80 each, according to experts.
The Met Police declined to comment on the alleged attempted theft of the Aston Martin.
