{"id":314920,"date":"2025-12-14T03:11:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T03:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/314920\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T03:11:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T03:11:13","slug":"many-people-in-one-part-of-wales-are-getting-false-parking-fines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/314920\/","title":{"rendered":"Many people in one part of Wales are getting false parking fines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The local authority issued an urgent message after the issue became pretty serious<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2_rbp_mai201124parking33868JPGjpgo.jpg\" alt=\"Card parked in a road in this generic image\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Powys County Council has been moved to make a statement, such was the seriousness of the issue(Image: WalesOnline\/Rob Browne)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">A Welsh council has issued an urgent warning to residents following reports of fraudulent text messages circulating across the county.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Powys County Council has said it has been made aware of a series of scam messages claiming recipients have received a parking fine. The texts instruct people to click on a link to pay the alleged penalty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Residents are strongly advised not to click on the link, as the messages are fraudulent and may be used to steal personal or financial information.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The council has confirmed that all legitimate parking fines in Powys are administered by the Wales Penalty Processing Partnership.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Neither the Wales Penalty Processing Partnership nor Powys County Council will contact individuals by text message about parking fines, the council said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Anyone who receives one of these messages is advised to delete it immediately and remain vigilant against unexpected payment requests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The local authority issued an urgent message after the issue became pretty seriousPowys County Council has been moved&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,924,59,60663,125100,981,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-314920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-crime","tag-gb","tag-powys","tag-powys-council","tag-traffic-and-travel","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}