Dealing with cryptic emails from solicitor

Shagger

I've recently started receiving rather cryptic emails from a supposed solicitor with the subject of 'Important Correspondence'. They each contain a link to log in to what I presume is some kind of portal on their website in order to view a document of some sort, but there's nothing whatsoever in the email to indicate what the document is or even what it relates to.

I've currently got 3 parking 'fines' on the go from 3 different private parking firms, so I'm assuming it must relate to one of these.

So far I've saved the emails but ignored them, reasoning that this is a completely inappropriate way for a solicitor to contact someone given that the emails could easily go into a spam/junk folder, get buried amongst other emails or go to an account that may not even be used anymore. They could also be some kind of scam for all I know.

Am I ok to keep ignoring these as long as I continue to read all letters I receive through the post, or could it be in my interests to see what these documents are? I'm well aware that as soon as I click on one of the links, the sender will be able to see that I've accessed the document, so I wanted to check on here first as despite dealing with several of these bogus 'fines' over the last decade or so, this contact method is completely new to me.

Umkomaas

Might help us to give specific advice on potential authenticity if you could please let us have the name of the solicitors who are writing to you. 

ChirpyChicken

oh that will be QDR
clicking on the link will do no harm

Shagger

Umkomaas said:

Might help us to give specific advice on potential authenticity if you could please let us have the name of the solicitors who are writing to you. 

They're being sent by a firm called QDR as ChirpyChicken correctly guessed.

It's not so much the authenticity that I'm concerned with (although it'd be a reasonable concern given the number of online scams around these days), more that it seems like a completely inappropriate and very unreliable way for a solicitor to be contacting someone. I don't actually even know how they got my email address.

Coupon-mad

From a previous appeal or from a soft trace. Both are OK and in fact this is a good way to alert naive idiots who have moved house and think it's OK not to tell a parking firm who has been writing to them at the old address.

Do the parking firm(s) only have one address for you and it remains correct? If yes then it's fine to await actual letters.

ChirpyChicken

Coupon-mad said:

From a previous appeal or from a soft trace. Both are OK and in fact this is a good way to alert naive idiots who have moved house and think it's OK not to tell a parking firm who has been writing to them at the old address.

Do the parking firm(s) only have one address for you and it remains correct? If yes then it's fine to await actual letters.

Hence why I always recommend giving s normal email address when ever someone appeals a pcn

Shagger

Coupon-mad said:

From a previous appeal or from a soft trace. Both are OK and in fact this is a good way to alert naive idiots who have moved house and think it's OK not to tell a parking firm who has been writing to them at the old address.

Do the parking firm(s) only have one address for you and it remains correct? If yes then it's fine to await actual letters.

Thank you. Yes they all have my current address so I'll just await any more letters, then.