If you find it on your car, report it immediately, the police said in a new warning

You could easily confuse it with something else, the prudence of the authorities.


Whether you go to a meal or just go shopping, find somethingunexpected on your car can really derail your day. There are a number of unpleasant additions that you may notice, from a parking shoe or a ticket for cut tires or a nasty scratch. They will delay your departure, but the police recently issued a warning on something other than you could find which means that you are targeted by crooks. Read the rest to discover what the police ask you to point out immediately if you see it on your vehicle.

Read this then:If you see this while you are driving, call 911 immediately, the police warn.

The crimes and drawbacks linked to the car have become more common.

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Police in the country have issued various scam warnings for drivers, including a ruse an alert involvingQR codes. Fraudsters stick theDigitable places at Parkterswarned the San Antonio police department at the end of last year. The codes have accompanied the text informing drivers that they can use the QR codes to pay the parking, while in reality, the QR code takes them to a fraudulent website to make a false payment.

The car parks carry their own set of dangers, while the police of the canton of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, issued a warning concerning an increase in crooks of crooks trying toSell ​​false jewelry While buyers were walking towards and sinceTheir cars parked.

Another parking program involves peoplePretend to play the violin For money outside of grocery stores. These crooks often have accompaniment signs requiring money to feed their families, but theThe statements are not truesaid the country's police.

Now the authorities have issued another warning for drivers, urging them to pay particular attention to their windshields.

This new scam looks legitimate.

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We were all there - after taking advantage of a shopping trip, you return to our car and find a feared parking ticket. These tickets can transport heavy fines, depending on where you parked, and you may even have to go to an audience if you want to fight the quote. But Fairfax City, Virginia police say that another "ticket" is more annoying to receive.

According to a tweet from the Fairfax City police department (FCPD), the crooks have found a way to imposeFraudulent parking tickets On without mistrust drivers. These false tickets are not riddled with typing faults or other clear scam gifts, as we can see in a photo taken by the FCPD, and they even include the Fairfax City seal and the legal jargon to make the more convincing.

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Fraudulent tickets were also found in Atlanta.

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This is not the first time that Fairfax City has experienced parking tickets after warning the public of aincident chain In July 2021. As part of the last program, however, the police suspect that fraudulent tickets were submitted via a mobile application called TURO, by which drivers can rent cars from different private owners.AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

These tickets were distributed numerically, but earlier this year, Atlanta, Georgia police warned that drivers had foundPrinted tickets On their car windshields, Fox 5 Atlanta reported. Similar to the Parks-Parards program, the tickets had a QR code which asked the victims without distrust to pay via a website called "ATL quotes". A victim went to the address indicated on the company's website to pay in person instead, to discover that it was the address of a car repair workshop unrelated to the ticket parking.

The ticket looked convincing thanks to the use of colors and styles similar to real parking tickets, with "City of Atlanta" written on the top and the name of a police officer included. Although they may seem legitimate, the Atlanta Ministry of Transport told Fox 5 that a way to spot a program is by a QR code, because the tickets distributed by their office never have these codes.

Police ask you to report these scams.

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If you have received a fraudulent parking ticket, in particular via the TURO application, the police ask you to contact the authorities immediately. Avoid opening a communication line with crooks byLook at the number For the parking lot or the police service of your city, rather than calling any number indicated on the ticket, the experts of defensivedriving.org recommend. Police will be able to confirm whether your ticket is legitimate or not and make sure you do not involuntarily pay criminals.


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