UKPC scammed!

pogofish

As if things couldn't get any lower!

Its a quiet day, so I just took a look at my spam folder and lo, there were several email NTKs from "UKPC" regarding a ninety quid "fine" and yes, using the words "crime" and "misdeed"! Different emails offered a discount of between £22 and £75 but it always bottom lined to ninety quid!

Now I don't think this is actually from the UKPC we all know and love - esp as there are no actual details of car, driver or location. More it looks like a complete work of very amateurish fiction from a foreign scammer. Even genuine PPC scam tickets ain't this bad.

There are some images/banners as well but work blocks them as suspicious, which is good enough reason to resist opening them as they may be trying to harvest details.

How long till someone pitches one of these up here in panic?

Carthesis

Have a laugh - forward the emails to UKPC and inform them they're being used as part of a phishing scam!

pappa_golf

those emails have been mentioned on pepipoo ,

what is/was the payment address , and is there any connection between yourself/ukpc that might have caused a data breech?

pogofish

The Address is Station Sq Coventry and yes, I may have had a look at UKPCs website sometime in the last few months.

There is another link for "payment info" and photos but I'm not encouraged to go further.

pogofish

Carthesis wrote: »

Have a laugh - forward the emails to UKPC and inform them they're being used as part of a phishing scam!

Let them find out via their lurker here - make their job slightly more worthwhile!

pogofish

It traces back to a Russian ISP, so IMO its a genuine phishing scam, not a fake UKPC ticket.

Unless someone at UKPC is trading data but I doubt I'd feel that sorry for them if it was.

Fruitcake

Someone has posted images of these emails on Fakebook's "Parking Tickets my @rs e" page.

alanjuk

The story made our local rag the other day See here

beamerguy

pogofish wrote: »

It traces back to a Russian ISP, so IMO its a genuine phishing scam, not a fake UKPC ticket.

Unless someone at UKPC is trading data but I doubt I'd feel that sorry for them if it was.

WOW ? real scammers v parking scammers ?

Maybe the UKPC database has been hacked, something the ICO should investigate

https://ico.org.uk/concerns/

pappa_golf

UKPC scammed!

I,m annoyed with the russians , please leave scamming down to the likes of gladstones and B+L legal

there is not enough to go around!

pogofish

That's the one!