A grandmother in Victoria is facing the risk of losing her licence after her car's registration was cloned and used to accumulate over a thousand dollars in speeding fines. The incident occurred after she posted an ad for her car on Facebook marketplace.
A suspected number plate scam has left a grandmother in Victoria on the verge of losing her licence after a criminal cloned her car’s registration and racked up over a thousand dollars in speeding fines . Daniela Pobega currently has nine demerit points from three speeding fines that occurred on the Ring Rd in Ardeer, 110km away from her home in Rosebud.
Grandmother almost loses her licence after falling victim to car-sale scam. But the 71-year-old says she was never behind the wheel any of those times and her number plates were cloned and used on another car which racked up the fines. “ on the other side of town,” Pobega told 7NEWS. “I’m not travelling up and down every day, especially at my age.” Pobega believes her plates were cloned after she recently posted an ad for her Audi on Facebook marketplace.
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