Parking ticket scam?

[dan filipi]

Just wanted to pass this on to everyone.

I got a delinquent parking ticket notice in the mail.
Car is NOT mine and I've never driven this type of car.

Called the police department, they ran the plate which turns out to be not a valid plate!

This notice looks VERY official.
I'm going to scan and post a pic of it.

Be careful out there guys, lotsa scammers and they're getting VERY clever.

Question everything!

 

[joedrum]

sheesh people cant act like gov theifs ...thats only for the select gov parisites :smilie_happy: :cheeky: :sensored: to both of the robbing scam scums

 

[dan filipi]

FRONT:

REAR:

 

[dan filipi]

Government competition, that's good Joe! :smilie_happy:

Checking this more, the website looks official, phone number has a menu driven system. This is good.

I'm going to the police dept to verify again this is bogus.

 

[slabghost]

The DA should be notified. Might be a subcontractor with a mission.

 

[dan filipi]

Well it turns out now this may NOT be a scam.

Went to the police department.
Guy looked up the plate number but instead of a NISS which we guess would be a Nissan it's a Honda under that plate number.
The Honda is my bike!

What's real weird is I've never been anyway near this address and definately not in the last few months because I haven't riden it.

So the plot thickens.

I'm going to dispute it.
My main concern is if someone has counterfeited my license plate.
For that reason I've removed the 2 pictures and advising everyone here as well as the moderators to never post pics of your vehicles with the license plate in view. Blur or erase it.
If we see any pics with a license plate we'll try to remove it.

 

[slabghost]

Check the date and time of the supposed violation against your appointments book and your recent trips.

 

[dan filipi]

Already checked.
Ticket date is Sept. 24 2012, last month.

The only place I've riden it in the last few months is to a fish store that has their own parking lot, and the gas station down the street.

 

[scdmarx]

The court system should have a docket #. Sometimes called a case#. That's how they file everything into the system. Without that docket # they would play hell referencing your case. Does your notice have a docket or case# on it somewhere? If you got the ticket last month, I seriously doubt it would be delinquent in less than a months time. Hell, it takes them that long just to get it through the system.

I suspect this is one of those scams that has somebody working on the inside. Someone perhaps with access to DMV records. Or hacked your info from some data base. Having the phone matrix you describe sounds pretty complex. I mean, beyond and above the common purse snatcher needing a fix. Who knows? You might be funding Islamic radicals. Wouldn't really surprise me if it was an inmate inside a correctional institution?

I have multiple drivers in my family now, and I don't always know for sure where somebody might have got a parking ticket. All I usually know for sure is that it was either Nobody, NotMe, or Idunno. It's up to me to come up with enough proof to narrow it down.

 

[AApple]

Just as easy for someone to write down yer license number while yer ridin down the road, or parked at a 7-11....are you sure your plate is still on da bike? I got stopped once in a car, and the cop said I dint have a tag. I argued, until I got out and looked, and sure nuff, it were gone. I had been at a movie theater....apparently, someone had stolen the plate while I was there.... :rant:

 

[dan filipi]

Plate is still on the bike.

I wrote a letter disputing the ticket and included color pictures of my bike with my license plate that still actually has the 2012 sticker on it and the new sticker still attached to the new registration we get in the mail.
See here in cali parking enforcement doesn't run the plate to see when it expires. They get that from the plate when writing the ticket.
The notice clearly states 2013 expiration.
The notice also says make "NISS" and color "black". My bike is red.
Something real fishy here.

 

[slabghost]

Far as I know Nissan never made any bikes. Are bike and car plates there the same size? Here it would be obviously wrong to see a little bike plate on a car.

 

[roncar]

See here in cali parking enforcement doesn't run the plate to see when it expires. They get that from the plate when writing the ticket.

That doesn't make sense. The would have to run the plate to get your name and address. Seems easy to pull expiration at the same time.

Now the actual ticket could have all kinds of handwritten mis-information, but wouldn't have your name and address unless you were present at the time. Sounds to me like the tag number was mistyped into their database.

On a similar note, Florida is talking about changing their plates so the numbers can be easier read from the pics taken from toll booths and red light cameras. The numbers get read wrong or they can't even guess what it is with the current design and font used on the plates. I spoke with a lady last week that lost a day's work when she got a red light ticket because they misread one digit on the license plate (between an M and N.) That was on a motorcycle as well but was a different make and color. Aggravating to miss work, but the $173 (red light camera violation) fine for something you didn't do is hard to swallow.

 

[sledge]

and I still wonder , why some people go nuts , buy a Gun......and Kill a few people in the Mall............ :smilie_happy: