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Thanks for sharing, it's not particularly sophisticated and hopefully most will see through it,

It's multitasking criminals who just look for opportunities.  Why blame the council for criminals?   Best advice is to follow the rules and regulations.  Bigger criminals are the private parking companies who use disproportionate means -  governments were attempting to tackle unfair practices.

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The criminal activity is targeted at areas where councils have an aggressive approach to revenue generation from parking enforcement because it sows uncertainty in those who receive the tickets. The criminals are playing in to the fact the council is hellbent on rolling out CPZs and has created pockets of CPZ zones and has a third company sending loads of parking enforcement officers to patrol the area.

 

McAsh is commenting because he knows why this is happening and it is his policy that is the catalyst.

Where you have a community which has become accustomed  to unexpected and arbitrary demands for payment for infringing some rule which was not always apparent or clear - and consider the high levels of fines levied by Southwark when they first introduced road restrictions relatively recently, together with many aware of planned intentions to introduce wide-scale additional parking restrictions (without necessary being fully aware of the current status of these) then you create a climate where another unexpected demand may be assumed to be 'official'. 

If you wanted to try out such a scam, as a criminal, why wouldn't you first chose such harrassed communities to ply your trade in? And Southwark is outstanding in this area.

I wouldn't say complicit, but 'responsible for an unintended consequence' - well, jury's out on that one.

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Perhaps the criminals were inspired by the Conservative party after their Mayoral candidate, Susan Hall, sent out thousands of fake driving licenses penalty notices, designed to mislead them into handing over personal data to the party.

https://bylinetimes.com/2024/07/12/conservative-party-ico-susan-hall-sadiq-khan-leaflets-data-harvesting/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1721034897

Blimey 

The conspiracy theories on here would make x/twitter proud.

Maybe it is simply a scam that is used elsewhere and we are all reading to much in to it. 

But if you want conspiracy theory then it's Trump using it to wind up people about the current president so that they vote to reopen the investigation into the fact no one has ever stepped foot in the moon because that's where ufos come from and they are driven by the soup dragon 🙄

18 minutes ago, first mate said:

I don't think anyone on here was suggesting it was not a scam?!

Correct, but the conspiracy theories around it were what I was drawing attention from. 

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