S’porean Gets Mysterious Traffic Fines; Realises A Stranger Is Using His Number Plate

I still remember back when I was in primary school, a classmate of mine took my science homework on my table, exchanged my name for his and vice versa, and handed it up sneakily to the teacher without my knowledge.

I failed that homework, and was furious because that wasn’t even my paper.

Things like this happen all the time. In life, sometimes people might steal your things and take credit for their own.

Just like this case. Except, it has nothing to do with homework, and everything to do with car plates.

Singaporean Gets Mysterious Summons

A netizen named Kenneth received two summon letters from the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) claiming that he had committed parking offences at locations that he strongly denies being at.

The first letter from URA was received on Sunday, 20 October, which informed him of a summon issued on 29 September for not displaying parking coupons.

It is puzzling because he was in Johor Bahru that day, so it was impossible for him to not display parking coupons when he wasn’t even in Singapore. He then sent a copy of his passport to the authorities as proof.

While it seems like the issue was resolved, another letter came two days later. This time, URA replied and told him that he had another outstanding summon for parking illegally at Dickson Road on 9 October.

It confused him as Kenneth claimed that he was nowhere near that place of incidence.

According to him, he was stuck at a Serangoon car park as his car had a flat battery that day.

He later provided URA with a receipt of his car battery to proof that he had changed his car battery on that day.

What Actually Happened

He must have been confused as hell the whole time, receiving these summons and being told that he was at these places when in fact, he wasn’t.

Upon checking OneMotoring, he realised that his car plate number was spotted on a BMW, but his car is a Volvo.

Nani??

This means that a BMW sedan that allegedly does not belong to him had his exact car plate on it. In addition, this suspicious BMW car was allegedly last seen at an open-air carpark in Pek Kio.

However, it wasn’t mentioned how Kenneth managed to find the vehicle with the same car plate as his. This is an interesting case of identity theft. Or should I put it as car plate number theft?

This case is still currently under investigation, so we know nothing about the BMW until further information is being released.

Nevertheless, it is crazy how one would think of pulling off such a trick like that using car plate numbers.

Car plate numbers are unique like our NRICs, there aren’t any identical numbers between two people. Just like our fingerprint.

HOWEVER.

There might be repeated car plate numbers with a different prefix. For example, there could be SJZ8888 and SME8888.

Whether it’s an honest mistake or an identity thief, we’ll only know when the investigations are complete.

In the meantime, just remember to keep any receipts you have. They might come in handy.