Cloned Plate - Splash and dash - Solicitor letter arrived

[mph999]

Alex_6n2 said:

covboy said:

Yet to come across a completely "pay at the pump" station

Literally ANY Shell fuel station

Open Shell App, input pump number, pay with google/apple pay, fill, leave

Easy.

Yep, BP have a similar setup ...

[rxe]

mph999 said:

Yep, BP have a similar setup ...

Every mainstream station has this - BP, Shell, Esso. Clearly if you frequent “Murco” or similar, you’ll have to pay the old fashioned way, but I haven’t gone into the shop to pay for petrol for about 2 years....

[andburg]

Think covboy means one where its unmanned with no option to pay at a kiosk.

Pay at pump can still be dodged, the auth is for £1 so if you have £1.01p you can take £100 of fuel.

[Chris32345]

covboy said:

Yet to come across a completely "pay at the pump" station

Quite common with supermarket ones these day's

[RichTT]

threadlock said:

Any update please, RichTT?

Nope, not heard a thing yet. As someone else suggested I might not hear anything again but it would be odd if that was the case.

[Total loss]

andburg said:

Think covboy means one where its unmanned with no option to pay at a kiosk.

Pay at pump can still be dodged, the auth is for £1 so if you have £1.01p you can take £100 of fuel.

Asda are trialing £100 authorisation, see thread on here a couple of weeks ago.
If you only have £20 in your account, the pump will only dispense £20 of fuel.

[Psycho Warren]

andburg said:

Think covboy means one where its unmanned with no option to pay at a kiosk.

Pay at pump can still be dodged, the auth is for £1 so if you have £1.01p you can take £100 of fuel.

except the card holder gets the debt in the form of an unauthorised overdraft.

Only way for it to make it back to petrol station is if the cardholder tries and claims it was a fraudulent transaction.

[Melman Giraffe]

Total loss said:

andburg said:

Think covboy means one where its unmanned with no option to pay at a kiosk.

Pay at pump can still be dodged, the auth is for £1 so if you have £1.01p you can take £100 of fuel.

Asda are trialing £100 authorisation, see thread on here a couple of weeks ago.
If you only have £20 in your account, the pump will only dispense £20 of fuel.

My Local Sainsburys blocks £99 on my card, Takes upto 3 days to get the money back less the fuel cost

[cuprabob]

Melman Giraffe said:

My Local Sainsburys blocks £99 on my card, Takes upto 3 days to get the money back less the fuel cost

I regularly use Sainsburys and in my case it's only £1.

[mcflurry]

andburg said:

Think covboy means one where its unmanned with no option to pay at a kiosk.

Pay at pump can still be dodged, the auth is for £1 so if you have £1.01p you can take £100 of fuel.

Presumably you'd then get an invoice letter similar to the Original poster?

[Psycho Warren]

read above.

No invoice letter just a shirty "youve gone over your overdraft limit" warning from your bank.

[RichTT]

So the debt recovery agency got in touch finally with the evidence. The photo is grainy but certainly looks like the correct reading of the plate.

http://imgur.com/gallery/NEt8VRH

Due to this taking so long I am now overseas until at least early June. I've submitted an online crime report and will wait on hearing back from them before I reply to the email.

Will see what happens next.

[M4cruiser]

So that's SM19WRD recorded on DVLA as a black Astra, which is what it looks like.

[Mattt]

What’s the OP’s plate?

[Hashtaggggg]

The plot thickens.....

[M4cruiser]

Mattt said:

What’s the OP’s plate?

Well I'd best not post it on here, but by careful mis-reading and using the DVLA database I have found a two-wheeled Triumph with a similar (but different) plate.
Looks like a genuine cockup by making a grainy mis-read and the security/petrol company not being willing to use a bit of fuzzy logic, like I just did.

[RichTT]

M4cruiser said:

So that's SM19WRD recorded on DVLA as a black Astra, which is what it looks like.

Jeez, didn't even check that plate. Well done, yes that's what it would be. Might even just reply to the solicitors with that?

[48k]

M4cruiser said:

So that's SM19WRD recorded on DVLA as a black Astra, which is what it looks like.

And change the first M to a W and you get a Triumph Bonneville.
So it's not a cloned plate it's a misread of the CCTV image.

[anonymous-user]

M4cruiser said:

Well I'd best not post it on here, but by careful mis-reading and using the DVLA database I have found a two-wheeled Triumph with a similar (but different) plate.

... which needs a road tax renewal!

[Register1]

I do like a bit of Inspector Clouseau