EmilysDad
Senior Member
I must just have been lucky as nothing like this has ever happened to me. The closest was when eBay suspended my account when someone in Thailand tried to use my account.
Again I totally sympathise....but one should not be out of pocket if one is totally and completely innocent....that is for the law of the land to prove otherwise.Ineresting, Ron. If youve seen the way High Court "Sherrifs" carry on, if they are instructed to act upon someone, that's exactly what they do. If I had chosen to ignore my first wake up call where a council in the NW of England came after me for falsely overdue rent (long story... in the end their CEO apologised to me because their employees had not followed their own ID procedures) then I would have been in deep lumber. - If it had gone to the High Court - which is what the TV program "Can't pay - we'll take it away" illustrates - I could have been forced to allow them into my house, list and remove property and no matter what I said about innocence - if they have a live writ, they enforce it and I would have been left hoping that I would get back my goods or monies once it was proven that I was an innocent party!
The system does work,
I have been retired 20 years but even back then we were struggling to attend all ANPR pings. I hate to think how bad it is now.only to a degree. As I've said before, due to a faux pas with the insurer, EmilysMum's car effectively had no insurance for the best part of a year (they noted the reg plate wrong & I didn't notice) and the car had been up & down the country without a ping from ANPR
Not only the police but in my case one of the Building Societes... seemed so thick I nearly exploded! First they wrote to me saying they'd had a requst to grant a loan on my account - and they confirmed that they had refused (thank goodness) then when I gave them all the ID theft info they refused to remove it from my personal record because they said it "had actually happened". Five emails and two registered letters to update my credit records (Experian etc) and they finally woke up to the fact that I was the injured party! Then, when I called the police and asked them to deal with it, the woman I spoke to said in a rather surly tone: "What do you expect us to do about it?" and I said: I want you record and give me a crime report number because a crime has been commited - at which point the line simply went dead and (thankfully) I was transferred to a human bean - a "real" Police Sergeant who knew exactly where I was coming from etc. So I was able to get and put the crime number on my credit record and add a password to be quoted if I ever wanted to arrange a loan.
There was quite a bit of stress to accompany this - thankfully I was at a time of life where I didn't need to borrow money etc - but I might easily have been up that nasty creek without a paddle!
If u have plenty of spare cash it is so.I have the utmost sympathy for anyone in this type of situation and the perpetrators are scum of the highest order, but Ive always wondered what happens if you simply ignore everything that comes through the post...because you are completely innocent after all?
The law of the land is innocent until proven guilty.
And what is stopping you peeling the tape off filling up with fuel, driving off without paying and then doing 100mph up the dual carriageway before putting the tape back on when you get home?...To the OP, the best thing you can do is to place a bit of black tape on your numberplate front and rear say in the top right corner.
Then take a photograph of your car with the tape attached to the plate, then contact or email the forces where the clone has been used with the picture of your car and say the tape will remain on your plate so any other ANPR hits will be the cloned vehicle.
That way the respective forces can see the cloned car and hopefully catch it.
There is no need to change your registration number just mark yours as the true vehicle.
As the OP is likely to be an upstanding member of the public as a forum member they don't need to differentiate do they? They know it wasn't them and a bit of removable tape just doesn't make the grade as any sort of evidence either way.The OP wants a way to differentiate his car from the cloned car and a visible marker on the plate is a way of doing so.