Traffic police do not call or text to notify cold fines

The peculiarity of recording cold penalties for violators of traffic order and safety must go through many stages, from recording video, extracting cameras, identifying violations, sending notices, etc., so there is no need for traffic police to call or text. inform violators of fines. This is a form of fraud by criminal subjects in recent years, so people need to raise their vigilance.

He doesn’t have a car, but Mr. TMN (SN 1988, living in District 3) keeps receiving calls from the beginning of 590605…. of a person claiming to be a traffic police officer in Ho Chi Minh City, informed that Mr. N.’s car was fined by the camera for entering a forbidden road, the person claiming to be a traffic policeman asked Mr. N. to press 9 for more details and get… receipt.

Because he regularly watches the news, Mr. N. knows that the above scam has appeared in the past time, so he does not follow the instructions of the stranger. Although he was not deceived, Mr. N was constantly “harassed” by this phone number, affecting his daily life.

People need to be careful when receiving calls claiming to be traffic police to report cold fines for breaking the law trafficavoid loss of property because of fraudulent objects.

Like Mr. N., Ms. NTCM (SN 1978, house in District 6) has continuously received calls from the beginning of 00618…. Notice to press 9 to check the information that you have been fined for driving a car through a red light. Ms. M. said: “I do business at home, if I go to get more goods to trade, I only use a motorbike to get a car, but I will be fined! Therefore, when I heard these people claiming to be traffic police and calling themselves cold fines, I didn’t follow the instructions and hung up the phone. However, these people also do not let it go, calling once every few days is very annoying!”.

Some victims received calls from people claiming to be traffic police agents, all of which had similar content such as: “Have you received the cold fines receipt yet? Brothers and sisters cause traffic accidents at the time of day, month, year … now the processing time has passed, please provide the minutes number. If you have not received the minutes, ask you to update your name, ID number (or CCCD, passport), bank account number so that the Traffic Police Department can provide you with the number of violation minutes, together with the violation. , handling method, fine amount… When the victim is still in trouble, these objects ask the victim to transfer money to a predetermined account or provide an OTP code for… verification, investigation and handling.

In the face of many victims reporting about being called and texted by traffic police to notify them of cold fines and loss of property, the Traffic Police Department – NE – Ho Chi Minh City Police Department (Traffic Police Department) confirmed that the traffic police did not call and text. cold penalty notice information for any individual, unit or person. According to the process of handling violations of order traffic Safety In the form of cold fines, it must go through many stages such as recording traffic violators, extracting cameras to complete a notice of violation with a notice to be delivered to the violator’s address by registered mail. electricity. After 15 days when the violator has not come to the office, the Traffic Police Department will coordinate with the local police to send a notice to the owner of the violating vehicle. Calls claiming to be traffic police to announce cold fines are all… scams.

The Traffic Police Department recommends that people, when receiving calls from strange numbers claiming to be traffic police, informing them of a cold fine, should notify the local police, do not follow the instructions of the subjects, do not provide personal information, bank account with the subject in any form. For the cases of vehicle drivers who have received cold penalties, the Traffic Police Department is currently testing the Official Account information channel “Redline Traffic Police Department – Ho Chi Minh City Railway Station” on the social networking platform (Zalo), thereby integrating many applications linked to the website of the Traffic Police Department. Therefore, through this information channel, people can look up traffic violation information through images and pay fines online.