On Your Side: Beware of fake parking tickets in downtown Augusta

AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – Somebody is making an attempt to get drivers to pay for pretend site visitors tickets in downtown Augusta.

The Richmond County Sheriff’s Workplace put out phrase Thursday that it realized of the rip-off.

What are you able to do to ensure you don’t fall sufferer to the rip-off?

After dinner in downtown Augusta, Kevin de i’Aigle and his buddies discovered a pretend parking ticket on one in every of their vehicles.

“I went to high school in Savannah. I lived in New York for 28 years. I do know what a parking ticket seems to be like. And that is clearly bogus,” he mentioned.

He posted to social media, and from there, the submit went viral, even getting the sheriff’s workplace to concern a warning concerning the rip-off.

The sheriff’s workplace says their tickets may have their data on them. One thing de i’Aigle noticed as a crimson flag immediately.

“It’s very threatening. It says it may have an effect on your license renewal, credit standing, nevertheless it doesn’t have any point out of any jurisdiction,” he mentioned.

Once they went to the web site the pretend ticket mentioned to go to, it led to dot com as a substitute of dot gov, one thing the Higher Enterprise Bureau says is one other crimson flag.

“They’re simply making an attempt to get your data and your bank card to cost you cash. It’s regarding as a result of you’ve lots of people who’re coming downtown, , older individuals. We have now lots of people coming into city the subsequent few weeks for the Masters and so forth,” mentioned de i’Aigle.

The Higher Enterprise Bureau says scammers will attempt to goal you if in case you have an out-of-state tag. And to by no means pay with direct debit playing cards or apps like CashApp or Venmo.

When you ship that cash, you cannot get it again. If you have to pay for a quotation, use a bank card, it’ll be simpler to contest fraud prices afterward.

In case you have any questions, name deputies at 706-821-1000.

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