Charge certificate from Athena ANPR * UPDATED* Advice needed please

Orford

Yes carry on ignoring

BFG_2

Unless you receive an actual court document issued by a court [an N1 typically], you're free to ignore their invoices/scams/threats/pretend legal companies/pretend debt collectors/vague reference to bailiffs taking away and selling your children for firewood

BFG_2

ebaybaby...

They typically have a 'sister' company that sounds all legal and debt collector-ish.

This is so that people think "Oh my goodness, they have passed it to a big legal firm, things are really getting serious...I better pay-up quick before they take away my home"..... [hence your post here..lol]

Every firm that has issues with collecting monies [eg mobile networks, etc] does the same.

ebaybaby

BFG wrote: »

ebaybaby...
This is so that people think "Oh my goodness, they have passed it to a big legal firm, things are really getting serious...I better pay-up quick before they take away my home"..... [hence your post here..lol]

Exactly BFG!
I did start to panic again!

Thank you all so much for your swift replies.

BenefitMaster

Just to clarify a point here. The only people who can issue a "Penalty Charge Notice" are the Council. The only people who can issue a "Charge Certificate" are the Council. If you receive a documents from a private company purporting to be either of those things, they have (imo) committed the offence of Forgery, contrary to sections 1 thru 5 of the Forgery and Counterfeiting Act 1981.

In other words, you take it to the police and bang on the desk till someone listens and takes a report of a SERIOUS OFFENCE.

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BFG_2

BM, do you think that someone could pay up to one of the firms wrongly using "Penalty Charge Notice" or "Charge Certificate" and then sue them privately for 'fraud' [plus lots of costs and expenses of course]??

I might be up for that - love to use the courts to turn the tables on the muppets......lol.