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BBCA 24 -year -old cars cloning victim has told how he ended up fearing the morning post after the fines demanded that thousands of pounds begin to pour through his mailbox.
Eathan Cooper, based in Cambridgeshire, received his first fine last summer for a violation of the bus lane in Essex while on a trip to Madrid, in Spain.
Since then, Mr. Cooper, who works in sales, has erroneously received boxes from other parking sanctions, accelerating and driving through bus lanes.
Transport for London (TFL) said he had canceled fines after confirming that Cooper had been the victim of car cloning.
What is the cloning of the car?
- Automobile cloning involves criminals who steal or copy the registration plates of another car, or the choice of plates from a similar -looking vehicle
- The scam involves the criminals who use the registration plates of another person and the increase in fines and sanctions that land in their unsuspecting victims, which only realize that there is a problem when the fines begin to arrive
- With Police impulses People who suspect that their vehicle registration has been cloned to inform it
- With those who were reported once, those affected, the organization that issued the fine, explains that the vehicle has been cloned, that the police have been informed, requests the cancellation and sends the support of Evaaalsable
Cooper, who lives in Sawtry near Huntingdon, said he began to fear the morning post after the fines began to reach his house.
He is sharing his story following a BBC Investigation Wat revealed a 64% increase in car cloning in London around a three -year period.
Althegh, all the letters went to him, and a relationship with a car with the registration of his vehicle, all fines for incidents were issued in places he had no leg.
“I was in Madrid when my younger brother called me for the first time to say that a letter had appeared,” Cooper said. “He opened it and was a bus lane ticket.”
The ticket was issued by an alleged duration of traffic rape in the middle of the night in Essex, more than an hour from his house.
“We couldn’t understand what happened,” said Cooper, whose car was parked at home in Sawtry about 70 miles away at that time.
The fines continued by alleged contraventions in London and Essex.
All fines are related to a black BMW that looks exactly the same as automatic enrollment recognition (ANPR) and has the same vehicle record.
Cooper said he has had six TFL fines, more than six bus lanes fines, as well as multiple parking loads and tickets due to speeding.
The driver and vehicle licenses agency (DVLA) said it was working with the National Police Chiefs Council and other government departments to improve the identification and application of numerical crime.
Cooper said that demonstrating that his innocence had consumed both for him and his family.
He has had to go to court and, he said, buy a record of private vehicles of £ 300 to avoid additional fines.
“The police reported that the fastest way to get rid of a Plage number would be to buy a private number and then inform DVLA, which we did,” he said. “Other companies, including the police, accepted our evidence.”
His battle with Tfl Begen in August 2024.
“I sent you CCTV images that my car was in my workplace, the confirmations, edible hotels reserve that I had bought in Scotland at that time, and rejected everything and said it was not significant evidence,” he said.
“I called TFL and said he had a Metropolitain police letter that confirmed that there is another car using my registration, and they would like to new evidence that they had already denied my appeal claim,” Cooper said.
In a final lower sense to avoid being tasks for the courts by TFL after he rejected his appeal, Mr. Cooper went to the Peterborough magistrates court to make a declaration of declaration.
In the Court I had six documents signed by legal professionals at a cost of £ 30 per launch.
After the BBC contacted TFL, the organization apologized to Mr. Cooper and accepted that his vehicle had cloned.
“We regret that Mr. Cooper has been a victim or cloning of vehicles,” said a TFL spokesman.
“Unfortunately, as we do not receive the evidence of cloning necessary to support the representation made, the case progressed to an application agent and orders were issued in line with this.
“Having reviewed the case, we are satisfied that it is a cloned vehicle and we have canceled the fines.”
