Pay your speeding fine but avoid the points - is this true!?

[6BMW]

I received the following in a forwarded email chain this morning. Normally I'd just ignore and delete such emails but this one caught my attention and I thought I'd share it with you guys here - can anyone confirm if they have got away with this or if it is total garbage??

Pay your fine, but, NO POINTS DEDUCTED, !!

Read on :-


This is how the points get added to your licence:

If you get a fixed penalty notice through the post which also carries
penalty points the computer system first sends you a demand for the cash.

When you have paid, it then sends a demand to return your licence for
endorsement.

It cannot handle the licence endorsement and the payment at the same time,
and it cannot process the points part of the system until the financial
section is complete.

If you overpay the fixed penalty, it must issue and send a refund cheque
for the overpayment.


Therefore, overpay the fixed penalty by sending a cheque for the full amount
plus £1.

The computer will then automatically generate a refund cheque for the
over-payment and send it to you.

• ** Do not cash this refund cheque - DUMP IT.

The system then remains 'open' and cannot generate the 'send your licence
for endorsement' demand part of the program.

It does, however, record your payment of the fixed penalty, so it does not
trigger the 'follow-up unpaid fine' stage.

As there is no human intervention, the system will leave you alone, since
it has got your money, which is the primary objective!

[Plotloss]

It's bks.

In other news, they've removed gullible from the dictionary. Apparently due to the fact it has Taliban etymology.

[einstein75]

Myth I'm afraid

[madala]

....not true.....more's the shame.....

[Matt_N]

6BMW said:

I received the following in a forwarded email chain this morning. Normally I'd just ignore and delete such emails but this one caught my attention and I thought I'd share it with you guys here - can anyone confirm if they have got away with this or if it is total garbage??

Pay your fine, but, NO POINTS DEDUCTED, !!

Read on :-


This is how the points get added to your licence:

If you get a fixed penalty notice through the post which also carries
penalty points the computer system first sends you a demand for the cash.

When you have paid, it then sends a demand to return your licence for
endorsement.

It cannot handle the licence endorsement and the payment at the same time,
and it cannot process the points part of the system until the financial
section is complete.

If you overpay the fixed penalty, it must issue and send a refund cheque
for the overpayment.


Therefore, overpay the fixed penalty by sending a cheque for the full amount
plus £1.

The computer will then automatically generate a refund cheque for the
over-payment and send it to you.

• ** Do not cash this refund cheque - DUMP IT.

The system then remains 'open' and cannot generate the 'send your licence
for endorsement' demand part of the program.

It does, however, record your payment of the fixed penalty, so it does not
trigger the 'follow-up unpaid fine' stage.

As there is no human intervention, the system will leave you alone, since
it has got your money, which is the primary objective!

Also, if we all stop buying fuel for just one day, the petrol companies will be forced to reduce their prices for ever.

[CraigyMc]

Matt_N said:

6BMW said:

...crap...

Also, if we all stop buying fuel for just one day, the petrol companies will be forced to reduce their prices for ever.

Imagine...

[Chris_w666]

Matt_N said:

Also, if we all stop buying fuel for just one day, the petrol companies will be forced to reduce their prices for ever.

Thats a great idea lets all not use Shell on the 23rd July. I don't know why nobody has thought of this before.

If we all stop paying tax will the government reduce them forever?

[Matt_N]

Chris_w666 said:

Matt_N said:

Also, if we all stop buying fuel for just one day, the petrol companies will be forced to reduce their prices for ever.

Thats a great idea lets all not use Shell on the 23rd July. I don't know why nobody has thought of this before.

If we all stop paying tax will the government reduce them forever?

Yep, we could also create an online petition, then they'd have to do it!

[CrisW]

I heard if you send chain e-mails to all your friends they stop talking to you.

Is this true?

[Chris_w666]

Matt_N said:

Chris_w666 said:

Matt_N said:

Also, if we all stop buying fuel for just one day, the petrol companies will be forced to reduce their prices for ever.

Thats a great idea lets all not use Shell on the 23rd July. I don't know why nobody has thought of this before.

If we all stop paying tax will the government reduce them forever?

Yep, we could also create an online petition, then they'd have to do it!

I just created one for free beer for over 30's, no tax for anyone that has worked for more than 5 consectutive weeks in one year, and the right for members of the public to submit daily expense claims to HMRC.

[edo]

this is as real as A3 S-Line Luxuary......

[Negative Creep]

Did you hear about the scamera van the other day? It actually locked on to a passing RAF Tornado and the pilot even had a missile lock on it!!!1!

[AdeTuono]

I once heard of a boy who was going to start a Pipeline Card and save us all 50% on the cost of litre. I think he could also swim as fast as a shark.

[aclivity]

AdeTuono said:

I once heard of a boy who was going to start a Pipeline Card and save us all 50% on the cost of litre. I think he could also swim as fast as a shark.

But could he throw a kettle over a pub?