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Scammed for speeding tickets. What should I do?
Crater
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In the last week we have received a registration document for a car that isn't ours in someone else's name. At first I thought it must be a mistake and some unfortunate distant neighbour had had his RegDoc sent to the wrong place.
I rang the DVLA and they told me to send it back with a covering letter, so I did.
Then over the weekend we had two notices of prosecution for speeding offences in different parts of the county, so now it's clear that this is a scam.
I rang the Camera unit in Stevenage, and they said something similar, send it back, you can put Return to Sender on it or a covering letter. She also said it would be investigated.
Then I rang my professional association legal helpline, who warned me not only to provide a letter paper trail, but also to be prepared to PROVE that we have lived here for 20 years, as Local Authorities don't need to get a court order to send Bailiffs in, are adept at losing documents or mis-placing them, and will want somewhere to get their money from.
It's not that I don't value legal advice, but this scared me, as you hear about these things happening.
Has anyone got any advice?
I rang the DVLA and they told me to send it back with a covering letter, so I did.
Then over the weekend we had two notices of prosecution for speeding offences in different parts of the county, so now it's clear that this is a scam.
I rang the Camera unit in Stevenage, and they said something similar, send it back, you can put Return to Sender on it or a covering letter. She also said it would be investigated.
Then I rang my professional association legal helpline, who warned me not only to provide a letter paper trail, but also to be prepared to PROVE that we have lived here for 20 years, as Local Authorities don't need to get a court order to send Bailiffs in, are adept at losing documents or mis-placing them, and will want somewhere to get their money from.
It's not that I don't value legal advice, but this scared me, as you hear about these things happening.
Has anyone got any advice?
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Yes. Post this on Pepipoo forums. We specialise here on private parking tickets (invoices) not fines/penalties.
The advice you received was correct - lay down a paper trail in case this comes back to bite.0
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