BEWARE! Someone could be using your Car licence plate!

BEWARE! Someone could be using your Car licence plate!

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Two different cars but same licence plates




By GAN LING KAI

FAKE bags and fake watches, sure.

But fake licence plates?

For months, Mr Wei received parking tickets for a place he has never been to.

He thought it strange so he reported it to the authorities.

On Wednesday afternoon, the mystery was finally solved.

Another car owner had made false plates just so he could keep his own car.

The actual owner, Mr Wei, told Shin Min Daily News that since last October, he had been fined three times for parking his car illegally without a season parking coupon around Yishun Street 61.




Mr Wei points to the look alike car carrying the same licence plate as his.

The 30-year-old, who works in the sales industry, said: "I live in Serangoon. I work in Clementi. I don't even go to Yishun.

"So I was very surprised when I received the three traffic tickets. I reported this to the authorities who said they would look into the matter."

Then on Wednesday, he got a call informing him that a parking warden had spotted a car bearing the same licence plate.

He rushed to the open-air car park between Blocks 640 and 641 Yishun St 61.

Sure enough, parked before him was a Mitsubishi - same colour, same licence plate.

He called the police, and a few patrol cars arrived at the scene shortly after, reported Shin Min Daily News.




Mr Wei had no clue at that point who owned the look alike car.

Then he spotted the other car owner walking towards the car park.

Said Mr Wei: "I recognised him immediately. He's a valet parking attendant working in the vicinity of Boat Quay. I then alerted the policeman beside me."

Mr Wei said he has been going to the Boat Quay area once or twice every week, and usually uses the valet parking service.

The cops moved in and the other driver didn't put up a struggle.

Shin Min reported that the driver lives in Yishun. He was about to go to work when he was arrested.


The driver of the look alike car being questioned by police.

It was reported that the driver may be facing problems paying his car loan.

He allegedly used the fake licence plate so that his car would not be spotted and subsequently towed away by the finance company.



The car with the fake plates - reportedly with a 2,000cc engine - is more expensive than Mr Wei's, which uses a 1,500cc engine.

Mr Wei's car, which he bought about 18 months ago, is valued at about $65,000, according to the current market rate.

The car with the alleged fake licence plate reportedly uses another type of engine, and costs around $140,000.



The police told The New Paper said it had handed the matter over to the Land Transport Authority (LTA) for further investigations.

This is not the first time someone has been arrested using a fake licence plate.

Last year, Ng Boon Leng, 29, forged his father's licence plate to drive around in a "borrowed" car.

When he did not return the car, the original owner of the Honda Civic reported the incident to the police.

Ng was caught by police in July and jailed for 3 1/2 years in September for theft, among other offences.

source:http://www.asiaone.com/Motoring/Owne...19-199705.html

Come May 2010, Malaysians need MyKad (MY ID card) to fill tank

Come May 2010, Malaysians need MyKad (MY ID card) to fill tank

The Malaysia government wants to limit the amount of subsidized petrol to Malaysians more so to stop profiteering.
The hassle of filling up the gas tankhttp://www.mysinchew.com/node/33918

2010-01-13 18:31

When visiting gas stations to fill up the tank, make sure you have your MyKad with you come May 2010.

Without MyKad, your cash or credit card will not get you even a single drop of petrol!

I have no idea whether we will also need to swipe our MyKad to buy sugar, cooking oil and the like in the future.

The Malaysian government may be the only one in this world that needs to verify a buyer’s identity before he fills up his petrol tank.

This reminds me of communism, where the people needed to show their identifications when buying a loaf of bread.

But then that was an era long gone.

At a time when ASEAN states and China are opening up their markets towards one another, I have no idea the policy of selling petrol on identification is meant to show off MyKad’s multiple functions, which even many developed countries pale in comparison, or to stop foreigners from buying cheap petrol here.

If we are doing it just to show off the multiple functions of MyKad, then we should rightly feel proud, as a pocket-size MyKad can accommodate at least eight different functions.

Any data, from personal particulars to whether the cardholder is suffering from VD as well as his wealth and other private details, will be unreservedly exposed with a MyKad reader.

This is of secondary importance, and the worst thing is that there is no product assurance on the extremely vulnerable MyKad chips.

Imagine you are in a hurry for work, school, or some business meeting, but having an empty tank in front of a gas station MyKad reader that refuses to accept your identification.

JPN urges the public to replace their chips if found damaged, showing that such a possibility is very real.

Imagine half the country’s population rushing to JPN to replace their MyKad just to fill up their petrol tanks, and the additional burden on JPN’s side.

If the new policy has been a counter-measure against foreign car owners who have poked the loopholes in the earlier policy of allowing foreign-registered vehicles to fill up their petrol tanks only within 50km from national borders, and up to 20 litres before leaving the country, then it is by all measures a very poor contrivance.

Foreign vehicles, especially those from Singapore, have brought much bigger economic benefits to this country than the profits they have sneaked away from our petrol allowances.

Inconveniences experienced at petrol pumps will only drive them away.

If we do this merely to stamp cross-border smuggling activities, then the anti-smuggling squads should work a lot harder to check their activities instead of transferring the hassles to motorists across the nation.

It is necessary for us to prevent foreigners from enjoying our petrol allowances, but not to spend huge sums of money acquiring MyKad readers and inconvenience motorists! (By TAN POH KHENG/Translated by DOMINIC LOH/Sin Chew Daily)

MySinchew 2010.01.13

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