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Hi,

I’m in a situation with the same scenario. If anyone can help/advise I would be very grateful. I’ll try keep it brief. The first letter I received was to say I had not paid the penalty charge (same location, same offence code). New charge was now £195 up from £130. I called the number and was sent a link to view the evidence. Video and picture evidence showed nothing with regards the offence, just my van driving down the road. According to them I couldn’t appeal until a third letter was sent. When I received this I appealed stating I didn’t not receive the original letter and I haven’t been given notice on what the actual offence was. Having reading all these posts it seems the exact same. I had a judge witness my signature as it requests (what a joke and scam that is, scaring people to just pay up I suspect!). The problem was I made a mistake on the form. I entered my details as the driver, not the business which the van is registered to. They sent the form back. I then had to resend with the details of the business and not me. I then receive another letter saying I’m out of time and had to declare that. Well I wasn’t out of time replying, but I did make a mistake on the (very confusing) form. I sent the next form back (again had to be witnessed by a judge!) stating I hadn’t received the first letter and also had to sign the out of time form. They basically forced me to do this. Today I’ve now received a notice of enforcement and it’s now £280! No acknowledgement of my appeal, or the fact they never sent an initial fine letter, just the one saying it was unpaid! How is this even legal, it feels like a massive scam. Can someone please help? Thanks.

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