National Fraud Helpline’s senior partner Martin Richardson today appeared on the BBC’s Morning Live programme to give scam advice about car’s being deliberately registered to the wrong person’s address.
Fraudsters are giving someone else’s address when registering their car with the DVLA in order to avoid car parking fines, congestion charges and even dangerous driving offences that they rack up.
It means when fines are issued the letters are sent to the wrong house which can lead to victim’s having baillif’s turn up at their doorstep.
The BBC asked Mr Richardson to appear on the programme to explain what people who receive the letters containing the fines at their home should do.
Some victims were concerned that they couldn’t open the letters because they are addressed to someone to doesn’t live at the home.
Mr Richardson explained that if you had a reasonable suspiscion that there was criminality involved it was permissible to open the letters.
As part of the interview, Mr Richardson called for the DVLA to require proof of address for anyone registering vehicles with the authority.
The full BBC interview can be seen here: Morning Live – Series 6: 24/01/2025 – BBC iPlayer (Watch from 17.10 until 18.20)
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