(HURON COUNTY, ON) – Huron County Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) would like to warn residents once again about traffic ticket & parking ticket scams that are landing in people’s inboxes.
One recent target, a 63-year-old from Morris-Turnberry received an email claiming to be from Impark Toronto”. The poorly written “Parking ticket report” requested a $40 payment be made within 14 calendar days for a parking offence. There was also a hyperlink in the email with a bogus photo of the parking offence. The notice was simply another “phishing” email designed to trick the recipient into sending an electronic transfer of funds to the scammers.
The recipient realized this was likely a scam so he contacted police to verify its authenticity. A quick online search revealed the traffic ticket notice was indeed a scam. (A copy of the parking ticket report is attached).
Similarly Huron County residents have received email notices from government authorities such as police services for traffic ticket offences. And just recently the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre (CAFC) has issued a warning about a new variation of this scam. Individuals have been receiving email notices claiming to be from the Government of Canada with photographic evidence of the recipient’s/driver’s vehicle failing to comply with a speed limit at a specific date
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