Urgent message. A wave of fake text messages and letters about fines

According to GITD, randomly selected telephone numbers receive SMS messages informing about speeding violations registered, among others, by the sectional speed measurement system on the renovated section of the A2 motorway Warsaw - Łódź.

This is an attempt to extort data or money - warns GITD. There is no sectional speed measurement system on the route yet, and the Chief Road Transport Inspectorate never sends text messages about fines.

Fraudsters, as GITD warns, also send fake e-mails and letters to vehicle owners. As we read in the announcement of the Chief Inspectorate of Road Transport, correspondence in this institution is conducted only by letter (via Poczta Polska) or via the eBOK CANARD customer portal.

The first letter from CANARD does not oblige you to pay the fine

Moreover, GITD emphasizes that the first correspondence sent from CANARD to the owner or possessor of the vehicle is not yet a fine and does not oblige to make a payment.

First of all, information about the registered offense and forms completed by the owner of the vehicle or the perpetrator of the offense are sent to the owner of the vehicle who committed the offense.

Only after agreeing to accept a fine on the submitted form, a credited fine is sent, which is assigned an individual bank account number to which the payment should be made.

Payments should be made at a bank, post office or using electronic banking. GITD never sends links to pay fines imposed by way of a penalty notice or to check the stage of the case.

What to do if we don't know whether the correspondence actually comes from GITD?

GITD advises that whenever we have doubts as to the authenticity of the correspondence, we should contact the Center for Automatic Road Traffic Supervision via the hotline at (22) 220 45 00 as well as by e-mail [email protected].

It is also possible to appear in person at CANARD, in Warsaw at ul. Przyczółkowa 109a or at one of the local branch offices.