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Why You Should Verify Before Making Plates: A Simple Step Against Number Plate Cloning

It Starts With a Letter That Is Not Yours A few months ago a friend of mine received a penalty charge notice for driving through a London congestion zone. The problem was he had been at work in Manchester all day. His car had not moved. Yet the ANPR camera had captured a vehicle bearing his registration mark. Someone else was driving around with his number plates attached to a different car. That is number plate cloning. It is more common than most people realise, and it ca

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