DMT gets 25 fraud complaints a day on vehicle papers — do you actually verify before buying?

The Department of Motor Traffic says it's now getting more than 25 complaints a day about fraudulent registration certificates, on top of a CID probe into roughly 700 vehicles with forged registration details and a few DMT officers already remanded this year over fake documents. Some buyers say this changes nothing — Sri Lankans have always done their own checks: verify the chassis number in person, call the DMT office directly, and never clear full payment before the transfer is confirmed. Others say that's unfair to put on an ordinary buyer — if people inside DMT can be bribed to alter records, no amount of personal diligence closes that gap, and it's the system that needs fixing, not the buyer's paranoia. A digital overhaul is reportedly coming to clean up the old database. Do you think that will actually stop this, or just push the same fraud online? Have you ever caught a fake registration or gotten burned by one — what tipped you off, and what should every buyer check before handing over money? මිලදී ගන්නකොට ලියාපදිංචිය සත්‍ය කියලා ඔබ හරියටම පරීක්ෂා කරන්නේ කොහොමද?