Many drivers from Russia and the surrounding countries must surely be thanking the technology gods for the widespread availability of dashboard cameras.

It’s not only cars and other motorists they have to worry about, as pedestrians looking to make a quick buck by pretending that they were the victims of a crash are also quite common, as you have no doubt seen before.

If you haven’t, here’s a fresh episode that took place just yesterday with a woman standing in the middle of the road, falling down by herself and then, as soon as the car leaves, getting up all by herself…

Video follows after the break.

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