Attention arnaque: fake fines

The fake parking ticket scam that we told you about last year, has now been extended to cover a range of fines, and the scammers are active throughout France and particularly on our very doorstep.

One scam doing the rounds across the whole country is the placing of fake parking tickets on windscreens.

The QR code that appears on these forged tickets take you to a very realistic, yet entirely fake version of the government’s fine-paying website.

The identified fake tickets take you to http://gouv-fr but QR code scams are becoming all too frequent and other website addresses are popping up all the time.

If you receive a parking ticket, double check that the QR code is taking you to http://antai.gouv.fr, or better still, don’t scan anything and try to manually input the reference number into the government’s official fine-paying website: http://amendes.gouv.fr

If you suspect, or are victim of this or any other scam online, you can report it here.