Pay by phone cost me parking ticket

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It’s not often I feel compelled to write a letter of complaint but Horsham District Council offers a pay by phone service and I’ve had the recent misfortune to discover that unless you are fully familiar with how this system operates you can end up with a parking ticket! As I did.

The park by phone system relies on the 

driver/parker to contact the number provided.

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Latest scam spam ploy: Bogus pay-by-phone London parking receipts

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Mundane cloak hides malware dagger

Bogus "pay by phone parking receipts" doing the rounds by email and targeted at UK users are actually designed to spread malware, security watchers warn.

The spam campaign is designed to trick recipients into viewing a fictitious list of parking transactions, contained in a malicious attachment. "Upon executing the malicious attachment, the malware opens a backdoor on the affected host," Dancho Danchev, a security researcher at Webroot explains.

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Fraudulent Westminster Council parking charge email sent

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At least 800 fraudulent emails have been sent telling people they owe Westminster Council money for parking.

Richard Loraine-Smith from Pewsey, in Wiltshire, said he was emailed by an address claiming to be firm PayByPhone saying that he owed the council £33.30

"How dare they get my details and send me spurious emails. I have never been to that street in my life."

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