Beware of a Penalty Charge Notice by Email

25/10/2012 Bogus Penalty Charge Notice Email

Drivers are warned to beware of bogus penalty charge notice emails which have been sent to thousands of email addresses. The notices, which are crude phishing emails, attempt to get the recipient pay a bogus parking fine by following a link in the email. Those who do risk losing their money and compromising their credit/debit card details.

The email mentions the Penalty Charge Notice website. There is more information here: www.penaltychargenotice.co.uk/phishing-email-scams/

Warwickshire Trading Standards advises consumers not to open phishing emails and to delete them.

For more information on phishing emails visit: http://tinyurl.com/94zko73

Please feel free to cascade this information to whomever you feel appropriate (including using the information in your newsletters/websites etc.). Please ignore any Restricted Notices on the bottom of this page - this is automatically generated but is not meant to apply to the information in this email.

If you have any information you wish to provide to Warwickshire Trading Standards Service, either for our information, or to appear in future email alerts, please email me.

For more information on scams, visit: www.warwickshire.gov.uk/scams

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Simon Cripwell
Trading Standards Officer
Trading Standards Service
Communities
Warwickshire County Council
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email. simoncripwell@warwickshire.gov.uk
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