Italian road offence

[denz1968]

Not directly T6 related but may help others.

I hired a car in Florence in 2018 and received a traffic offence for driving in a bus lane.
I received the notification within the 365 days, and i wrote back trying to fight it.

8 years has now passed and I am now getting letters from a London company called ERecoveries trying to make me now pay the inflated figure and threatening me with legal action.

Italian law states a road traffic offence is non payable after 5 years.

Does anyone have any experience or knowledge on wether they can take me to court and make me pay, or do i just continue to ignore what i believe are idle threats from a company that has bought the fine to try and make some money.

Thanks

Denz

 

[Sackmycook]

Ignore

 

[JumpShip]

Have you looked at companies house to see who are recoveries ?
Then you can google to see what other people say about them

 

[Sackmycook]

Some bloke called Mohammed from Luton and they dissolved in 2021....

Scam

 

[JumpShip]

Thats why I asked which company

 

[denz1968]

Have you looked at companies house to see who are recoveries ?
Then you can google to see what other people say about them

Sorry auto correct changed it - It is ERecoveries

Companies house state the following

Nature of business (SIC)​

• 82911 - Activities of collection agencies

 

[JumpShip]

Aussies ?

 

[Sackmycook]

1 Australian, no employees......

Bin it

 

[Lubrown]

Not directly T6 related but may help others.

Rather than just helping T6 Forum members who might click on this thread why not use Report Fraud to get the sender blocked for everyone and to let them build evidence for any future investigation/prosecution.

With AI being what it is any Tom,Dick or Mohamed can set up and distribute a torrent of scam emails at the click of a button. If people actually report these the scammer has to click that button again and one day they might just give in and claim benefits.

 

[BuilderJay]

If you haven’t paid anything towards a debt or acknowledged it it becomes statue barred after 6 years.
Ignore it.

 

[Sasquatch]

Ignore it. Aside rrom the abive, without a court order from a UK court the collection company cant do owt.

 

[RobertO2023]

In addition to all the above. If the letter scenario has recently started then no UK law will upheld their claim as the statute of limitations is 7 years and that from what you say it is now 8 years. Don’t waste any time arguing with them. If by a remote chance they issue a Court claim - which they won’t - it will never stick.

 

[whodat]

I'm not a lawyer - thought I'd better say that.

If you received the notification within the statutory period, then, in theory you are liable for the fine and any expenses.
Just because it was ignored or not paid, doesn't make it go away.

Anyway - that is different from if the company is a scam or not. That is for you to find out.
BUT sometimes after a period, they might offer a reduction in the amount owed if it is a debt collection agency in order to get their original investment back.

 

[Sasquatch]

This is why its good that periodically change your name

 

[denz1968]

So I am definitely out of the statute of limitations for the UK of 7 years, and i have seen an Italian motor offence has a statute of limitations of 5 years.

So should be OK to keep ignoring these

 

[Sasquatch]

Ignore it completely and utterly.

Any further correspondence should be binned without acknowledgement, or returmed to sender if you can recognise it from the envelope...the only exception being anything marked letter before action.

Theyre blowing goats in the hope you panic and pay. If one in a hundred cough up theyre making a profit.

 

[Lubrown]

Theyre blowing goats

That too?

 

[Bav]

This is why its good that periodically change your name

I hear ya, Big Foot.

 

[darkman884]

There are others, yeti of the himalayas for eg.

My favourite being the "skunk ape" , of the everglades.a foul stenching 8 foot high beast by all accounts

 

[Sasquatch]

My favourite being the "skunk ape" , of the everglades.a foul stenching 8 foot high beast by all accounts

That's me to a T !