Scam Warning - Fake Fine Letters On Cars in 47

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From the Pice National Agen, via Facebook:-

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If you see this little paper on your windshield and you scan the QRCODE via your smartphone :calling:.

You will arrive on a site very similar to that of ANTS (State platform dedicated to the payment of fines).

In reality it is not so, it is quite simply a scam dedicated to stealing your bank details.

Tip: if you notice such a paper on your windshield, simply wait to receive the notice of violation at your home before paying a possible fine.

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Si vous voyez ce petit papier sur votre pare brise et vous scannez le QRCODE via votre smartphone :calling:.

Vous allez arriver sur un site ressemblant très fortement à celui d’ANTS (plateforme de l’Etat dédiée aux paiements des amendes).

En réalité il n’en est rien, il s’agit tout simplement d’une arnaque dédiée à voler vos données bancaires.

Conseil : si vous constatez un tel papier sur votre pare-brise attendez tout simplement de recevoir l’avis de contravention à votre domicile avant de payer une amende éventuelle.

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Thanks for the warning… yet another angle of the original scams…
Govt keeps saying they won’t send emails/sms for fines etc…
now we have to watch out for scam bits of paper under the wipers…

aaaargh… just tooo many baddies out there… grrrrrr

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They’re innovative these crooks and it’s getting worse and worse.

I think there now needs to be penalties for companies hosting scam sites or scam email addresses.

We also need a verification system, a blue tick system. I’d have no problem verifying my emails addresses. So instead of mail clients guessing which emails to quarantine, anything not verified gets stuck in spam with a big red warning banner. This would be easy to implement, it just needs political will. Microsoft could implement it for Outlook and Google for GMail and that would probably hit 80% of personal email addresses. Corporate servers should be obliged to the same. It could initially be optional but people would soon get fed up with their emails ending up in spam, so they’d opt in.

It’s not rocket science, it’s just a lack of focus by service providers. If they were at risk of fines they’d soon wake up.

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I personally would only act if an official paper arrived and on it stated where the infraction took place and if I hadn’t been in that area I would know its not correct. I think you could also go to the gendarmerie to confirm if it is outstanding or not, they would surely be able to check and they tell people to be careful all the time too. Too much is dependent on people having smartphones now, many many people, myself included do not have one and therefore would not know anything about it unless it came up on the big PC that I use.

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We once received a parking fine saying that we had been in Brighton on Christmas Eve and had overstayed our time.
Actually we were in Hampshire putting up our tree!
When we challenged it, we had a printed reply saying that it was their mistake.

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I never click on QR codes in public places, you have no idea where they’re going to take you and what malware may be waiting at the destination.

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Reminds me of a friend back in the old commune, a farmer with a tractor. He got a letter issuing a fine for his tractor caught speeding in Paris. Paris not only 6 or 7 hours by car on the road and probably a day or two by tractor. Seems someone used the same number plate as his tractor when the police investigated further. That is another problem too of plates being cloned.

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Not cloned plates in our case but a traffic warden whose writing was so bad they took it as our car. When we said where were, our make of car and our registration, nothing matched with the ticket.
What a system.