Scam the scammers! - how does this sound???
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Phone the police, and tell them that you think your number plates have been stolen, as they are no longer on your car. You'll recieve a crime number. Then get some new plates made that either have or haven't got the little GB sign on the edge. (oposite to whatever your plates had to start with). With these you need to take along some form of ID - reg docs, whatever, and you'll recieve a receipt. SO, you've not got a crime number complete with date, and a receipt for new plates complete with date. Then, just drive around as normal. Should you receive an NIP from a scamera van, put on your new plates immediately then ring the Scamera people and ask for the photos - can't see them - etc etc etc. Go to court, when you can see the photos, and simply say it's not your car. Proof, the plates are different, you've got a receipt for the new ones, and - AND a police crime number for the icing on the top of the cake. Now prove that one!
bryan35 said:
Phone the police, and tell them that you think your number plates have been stolen, as they are no longer on your car. You'll recieve a crime number. Then get some new plates made that either have or haven't got the little GB sign on the edge. (oposite to whatever your plates had to start with). With these you need to take along some form of ID - reg docs, whatever, and you'll recieve a receipt. SO, you've not got a crime number complete with date, and a receipt for new plates complete with date. Then, just drive around as normal. Should you receive an NIP from a scamera van, put on your new plates immediately then ring the Scamera people and ask for the photos - can't see them - etc etc etc. Go to court, when you can see the photos, and simply say it's not your car. Proof, the plates are different, you've got a receipt for the new ones, and - AND a police crime number for the icing on the top of the cake. Now prove that one!
I also thought about this as the perfect solution.
Unfortunately, if you get caught then "perverting the course of justice" (& jail) springs to mind.
bryan35 said:
From another point of view, what if this really had happened, and someone else was driving round with your paltes on. What would be the police priority, Hounding you and pressing for the jail sentence, or finding the car with the stolen plates?
From (admittedly 2nd hand) experience, the "hounding" route appears to be favourite...
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