Parking Scam Beware!!
Hi I have just copied this from another site, but it's very close to where i live and thought i'd warn everyone.
"My friend had parked her car at the end of Lavender Sweep whilst I collected something from the sorting office on Lavender Hill. A woman dressed as a parking official knocked on her window to tell her that she had been caught on camera, that the parking App wasn't working so that she needed put her card in the parking machine to stop herself being fined £125. When I arrived, my friend was in a panic about having to pay a fine and asked if she could use my card. Meanwhile a man appeared behind us at the machine telling us that the same thing had happened to him. He then started "helping" us to press the right buttons, told me that I had not put in my full code so that I had to press the code in again. It would not work but when we tried to cancel the transaction, the machine swallowed my card. As my friend was still worried out her parking fine, we tried another card (seems ridiculous now!) and the same thing happened.
When I got back to the office, I cancelled the card (but not the pin because we thought that it was the machine that was at fault). Both my friend and I felt that the [slightly aggressive] man had made things much worse and that we felt that we had lost control of the situation.
THIS WAS A SCAM - I subsequently discovered that two amounts of £500 had been taken out of my account from the cash machine at Nat West, Clapham Junction. The bank informed me that they had also spent £1200 at Argos, Clapham Junction and I later discovered that £300 cash had been taken from the second card from the same cash machine.
The matter has been reported to the police and to Action Fraud online. I have reported this information to the police."
"My friend had parked her car at the end of Lavender Sweep whilst I collected something from the sorting office on Lavender Hill. A woman dressed as a parking official knocked on her window to tell her that she had been caught on camera, that the parking App wasn't working so that she needed put her card in the parking machine to stop herself being fined £125. When I arrived, my friend was in a panic about having to pay a fine and asked if she could use my card. Meanwhile a man appeared behind us at the machine telling us that the same thing had happened to him. He then started "helping" us to press the right buttons, told me that I had not put in my full code so that I had to press the code in again. It would not work but when we tried to cancel the transaction, the machine swallowed my card. As my friend was still worried out her parking fine, we tried another card (seems ridiculous now!) and the same thing happened.
When I got back to the office, I cancelled the card (but not the pin because we thought that it was the machine that was at fault). Both my friend and I felt that the [slightly aggressive] man had made things much worse and that we felt that we had lost control of the situation.
THIS WAS A SCAM - I subsequently discovered that two amounts of £500 had been taken out of my account from the cash machine at Nat West, Clapham Junction. The bank informed me that they had also spent £1200 at Argos, Clapham Junction and I later discovered that £300 cash had been taken from the second card from the same cash machine.
The matter has been reported to the police and to Action Fraud online. I have reported this information to the police."
