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Parking Charge Notice

Hi,

My boyfriend and I have been in Swansea the last couple of days, we parked out of town to escape any parking fines or car parking costs. Today we drove to our friends house where we were staying, we were inside for all of 5 minutes and returned back to the car to find a parking charge notice from Millenium Parking Services. The man claimed if we had been a minute earlier he wouldn't of charged, etc etc. From researching into it, it seems they might not be legitimate? £60 seems quite hefty, especially when it's reduced from £100.

Any help would be much appreciated.

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  • bondy_lad
    bondy_lad Posts: 1,001 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    look up the difference between,,,PARKING charge notice and PENALTY charge notice,,one is FAKE and one is real/genuine and must be paid,,guess which one you have???simply google it.
  • Stroma
    Stroma Posts: 7,971 Forumite
    Uniform Washer
    I suppose its these ??
    http://www.millennium-security.org/appeal.php

    If it is ignore them, can you tell us where they ticketed you, was it on a public road ?
    When posting a parking issue on MSE do not reveal any information that may enable PPCs to identify you. They DO monitor the forum.
    We don't need the following to help you.
    Name, Address, PCN Number, Exact Date Of Incident, Date On Invoice, Reg Number, Vehicle Picture, The Time You Entered & Left Car Park, Or The Amount of Time You Overstayed.
    :beer: Anti Enforcement Hobbyist Member :beer:
  • spacey2012
    spacey2012 Posts: 5,836 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Just the latest Scam to Snowball the UK.
    Someone discovered that DVLA sell peoples data.
    Got a real parking ticket and sat and thought, if I got my Inkjet printer and made a fake ticket that impersonated a real one some might pay it thinking it was a real parking fine.
    Them that dont will shtt themselves when I buy their details from DVLA as they wont know that DVLA are as bad as the scam merchants.
    Then follow it up with threats and intimidation and hey presto you have a scam that can earn you millions from the public who are never educated about anything remotely legal.
    The Scam is so successful they can pay off who needs to be paid off, they formed a trade club, bit like the Mathia where they control who can get in on the Scam, you pay the form or the firm pays you a visit kind of thing.
    Upwards spirals the Scam the motorists with fake parking tickets.

    As most fall straight for it, they are quids in.

    Then they are forums like this, the fly in the ointment, the exposure of the immaculate scam.
    And a war breaks out between us, the good guys exposing the scam and those that actually think they are the good fellas in all this, the scammers with the fake parking ticket scam.
    We found a way to beat them, IGNORE them.
    Has around a 99% success rate for those taking up the advice.
    Be happy...;)
  • Stroma wrote: »
    I suppose its these ??


    If it is ignore them, can you tell us where they ticketed you, was it on a public road ?

    Thanks for the reply! It wasn't on a public road, it was in a private car park by the flat where we stayed. Admittedly it did say not to park there but we stopped for under 5 minutes, came back and the man was submitting the ticket. It just doesn't seem "real" as he said he wouldn't have given it if we'd returned a minute before and the charge of £60.

    The issue we have is that we had a similar notice come through the post from a private company, and after checking that out on here it was definitely a scam so it has been ignored.

    The parking charge notice says if we do not pay then name/address will be requested from the DVLA. And according to the PCN we have here it is millenium-security, yep.
  • Kite2010
    Kite2010 Posts: 4,308 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Home Insurance Hacker! Car Insurance Carver!
    Ignore them, they can buy the details from the dvla, however the chances of them heading to court are slim. Damages the landowner has suffered = £0
  • bondy_lad
    bondy_lad Posts: 1,001 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    IGNORE,,and all the threat o grams you will get,,nothing can/will happen to you, its a SCAM.jobs a belter then.
  • Coupon-mad
    Coupon-mad Posts: 155,523 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    edited 23 March 2013 at 11:47PM
    Pl3ads wrote: »
    Thanks for the reply! It wasn't on a public road, it was in a private car park by the flat where we stayed. Admittedly it did say not to park there but we stopped for under 5 minutes, came back and the man was submitting the ticket. It just doesn't seem "real" as he said he wouldn't have given it if we'd returned a minute before and the charge of £60.

    The issue we have is that we had a similar notice come through the post from a private company, and after checking that out on here it was definitely a scam so it has been ignored.

    The parking charge notice says if we do not pay then name/address will be requested from the DVLA. And according to the PCN we have here it is millenium-security, yep.


    You have no issue here. It's a scam, a fake PCN and no different than the other one you ignored. These scum always buy the DVLA data if they are in the AOS scheme but that just means the registered keeper will get some junk mail, it's no biggie.

    There is NO WAY a bunch of door security ex-clamper thick-necks are going to have the foggiest about how to take the matter to a small claim.

    Expect some junk mail if you are lucky; can you let us know which letter chain they follow (if they bother), it will be one of these fine examples of intimidation:

    https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/2329119

    And despite them being a bunch of ex-clampers, now reduced to fake ticketing and door security to get their power fix, they cannot send the boys round nor affect your credit rating or anything:

    http://forums.pepipoo.com/index.php?showtopic=24362&hl=

    A BPA AOS member firm is no better than any other PPC scam-merchant. It's all the same profiteering rubbish business model, impersonating authority by convincing car park owners they need their 'services' dressed up as 'parking management'. Once in, they are there to make money and NOTHING ELSE.

    The only difference with AOS members is they can buy the data from the DVLA to send you some junk mail. So what?

    And if they do then you can challenge it if you fancy taking them to POPLA at their expense (bet they breach the BPA Code of Practice in some way on their ticket, signs or follow up Notice, or the deadlines).






    P.S. 'wouldn't of'??? :p
    PRIVATE 'PCN'? DON'T PAY BUT DON'T IGNORE IT (except N.Ireland).
    CLICK at the top or bottom of any page where it says:
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