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Birmingham City Council – PCN’s for CAZ
DIR By: Pathe33
Date: February 11, 2025, 7:31 am
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Friday 24th January, 2024 : As I drove into Birmingham I saw the
clean air charge notifications, aware my car is a diesel assumed
this would apply to my vehicle. After parking up, I went onto
Google and searched for CAZ payment, I clicked on the first hit
www.cleanairzones.uk and promptly paid for my duration in the
city of 2 days. In hindsight, silly of me to go with the first
hit but in all honesty (and never been to Birmingham before)
signal was weak being in the Bullring centre and sat in a café,
and frankly I was highly strung having driven around with my
Sat-Nav looking for my parking space which was made difficult
due to the road works and road shut where I wanted to go.
Payment cleared on Monday 27th January and on Saturday 8th
February I received 2 x PCN’s through my door advising
non-payment of CAZ. Checked my bank and payment had gone so
started to look at the website and to my horror realised it was
a spam site, I googled reviews to find that many people had been
scammed by this website and no contact details can be found on
said website. I promptly advised my bank who repaid the money
(£24) within hours, I reported the website to National Cyber
Security Centre.
I wonder if I am liable for these 2 PCN’s as Google has mixed
answers advising that as a victim of fraud I may not be but
other sites advise yes, just pay them type of info.
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Re: Birmingham City Council – PCN’s for CAZ
DIR By: stamfordman
Date: February 11, 2025, 8:44 am
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I doubt Birmingham will let you off but as it appears they are
reoffering the discount now on rejection (they weren't before)
it may be worth a polite ask. But we can't guarantee they will
reoffer the discount and then you'll be hit for 2 x £120.
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Re: Birmingham City Council – PCN’s for CAZ
DIR By: Pathe33
Date: February 11, 2025, 8:52 am
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Thank you so much for your advice, really appreciate it. I will
make the reduced payment and pay more attention of rogue
websites in future. Thanks again
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Re: Birmingham City Council – PCN’s for CAZ
DIR By: stamfordman
Date: February 11, 2025, 8:55 am
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Wait a bit to see if anyone else has anything. You could pay one
and ask for discretion on the other.
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Re: Birmingham City Council – PCN’s for CAZ
DIR By: Pathe33
Date: February 17, 2025, 5:23 am
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Morning, So BCC have come back to me but reading through their
letters I guess I'm stuffed as the fake website gave me no
invoice or receipt so I clearly cannot show confirmation of my
visit or payment. I have double checked the fake website again
and there is absolutely no contact us or phone number to get in
touch with.
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Re: Birmingham City Council – PCN’s for CAZ
DIR By: Pathe33
Date: February 17, 2025, 5:26 am
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And page 1
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Re: Birmingham City Council – PCN’s for CAZ
DIR By: John U.K.
Date: February 17, 2025, 5:26 am
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Does not your credit card/ bank card/ bank statement show the
transaction?
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Re: Birmingham City Council – PCN’s for CAZ
DIR By: Pathe33
Date: February 17, 2025, 5:29 am
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Hi, Yes it does but it seems they need proof from the fake
website in the form of an invoice or receipt which I didn't get
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Re: Birmingham City Council – PCN’s for CAZ
DIR By: peodude
Date: February 17, 2025, 6:55 am
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Have you checked your browser history to show them a visit to
the site and the subsequent pages? Even if you haven't got a
receipt show them the logs and your bank statements.
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Re: Birmingham City Council – PCN’s for CAZ
DIR By: Pathe33
Date: February 17, 2025, 7:10 am
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Good shout peodude, I have just done this and have the browser
history, I am going to call them and see how far I can get with
them
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