There’s instructions on the third page I think on how to oppose it.
by any chance you rented a car recently ? the number plate could be europcar
Pay it anyway, we can use all the money we can get our hands on.
IAN(L)AL, but I know a thing or two about traffic law. This fine definitely looks legit.
Have you been to Holland? The place mentioned (Indaver) is very close to the Dutch border.
Other things to look out for are the other pages. Feel free to share thos, even in a private message.
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I live in Belgium and once got a ticket for ignoring a sign. Even when me and my wife presented evidence we we’re at our jobs that day, at that hour and not around Brussels, we still had to pay thé ticket. Could be someone with a copied plate, or like in our instance probably, a cop who noted it manualy, but got the plate number wrong. Type and color of the vehicle on the ticket are from the database, and not an assasement of the cop… 184 euro’s, if i recall correctly.
Ask for the photos. Sometimes the cameras read similar plates incorrectly.
Ha! I just paid one of those about 10 minutes ago. Same price. It was actually me though.
In German? From antwerp? Smells fishy to me..
2030 Antwerpen is the port of Antwerp. Not a lot of speeding cameras there but one of them got me a few years back. 129 euros fine… while doing my student job. 1,5 days of working down the drain
I had/have a fine for about the same amount in a location I haven’t been in my entire life and it was during work hours and about 150km (2h drive) away from my work location. You can very easily dispute the fine online and they will look into it. I specifically asked for the photo that identifies my car and 5 months later the dispute is still in the “CONTESTATION ON FACTS RECEIVED” state. No news whatsoever inbetween, I doubt I’ll ever have to pay the fine as they simply can’t prove I was there, I simply couldn’t have been.
The website to dispute is the same one where you can pay for it, just make sure you’re contesting it.
Dude, Antwerp doesn’t send police invoices in German.
Looks like scam to me
Thats the price you pay for not visiting our beautiful country.
Don’t pay it.
We have national budget deficit. That’s why we charge unsuspecting foreigners with bogus fines to close the hole.
There’s an email system for these things, if I’m not mistaken. My husband got a fine while he was whizzing around on a scooter and he wrote an email apologising to them and they waived it. It helps that he was on a low speed electric scooter. Write them an explanation, attach some proof and you’ll be off the hook.
Do NOT pay for it, I repeat, do NOT pay for it. Make an appeal. If you pay and then make the appeal it will be sooo much harder.
Had a situation like this and I payed. The traffic worker told me it was a terrible mistake because now it was super hard to go on with the appeal. I didn’t get any money back.
The amount of people on this topic saying it’s a fake fine is amazing. This is a legit fine. The IBAN mentioned is also on the official website of the police. Why shout “fake” when you clearly have no clue…just don’t comment if you have no idea what you are talking about? OP: it’s a real fine, protest and call to your car rental service to figure it out.
Someone might be driving around with your license plate
They probably read number plate wrong. I had same situation where they fined me for speeding in Brussels while I was in America. Contact them and ask for the picture evidence.
Tu paies et tu fermes ton gueule sinon tu montes dans le Golf.
They once tryed to make me pay a fine in a village i had never heard of. With a car that was not the car that matched my nummerplate. And with a “remork” (never owned 1) .
Costed me 4 phonecalls and a visit of the local cops to check my car.
After that they stopped sending me reminders to pay.
Whatever you do. Don’t pay
Actually check up on it and don’t pay immediately. Could definitely be a scam. Someone I know barely got scammed in the same way and it looked just as legit as this.
My dad received something similar today. He has to pay a ticket of 221 euro for speeding in Charleroi while he was working with his car in our hometown. I think its some kind of scam.
Also vehicle characteristics just said: vehicle. Which is weird.
Reply, and send them proof of your location at that time
Belgian police are incompetent
Is this a legit letter?
Maybe someone copied your lisence plate i advise you to take contact with the police and explain your case asap
It is in German. Is that possible for something that happend in Antwerp?
Ahh, ze speed tax.
According to me its a fake. Police from Flemish towns do not send tickets in another language than Dutch… even to other countries…
But maybe I’m wrong…
Sprich deutsch du… sorry wrong sub
It happened to my grandmother as well, it can happen that car from different nationalities have the same license plate or they make a reading mistake. In our case I asked for the photo, and showed that model and brand of the car were different. So we didn’t have to pay anything
haha it’s a stationary speed camera I drive by allmost daily. It’s a real cash-cow as it’s more like a stroboscoop in the mornings. Especialy now when it’s still dark it’s on the daily i see it flash.
Belgian police so efficient it knows the crimes you’ll do in the future
pay now, don’t have to worry later!
People, stop renting cars from EUROPE cars, they are the worst scum of them all.
Why did you do it?
This kind of fraud is quite common apparently. The only thing you can do is to write to the police at Antwerp telling them that it was not you; that it was a rental car; and do they have a photo proving that it was you driving the vehicle? The best approach is to be polite. If you have a copy of the rental contract, perhaps you could enclose a copy. It might also be a good idea to tell them were you actually were on that day.
This is a scam. I live in Antwerp, Belgium and we speak Flemish NOT German. The letter is in German yet claiming to be from Antwerp 🚩
I’ve had this happen twice.
It’s an automatic process based on tag recognition and yeah it’s not perfect.
Just appeal and explain you weren’t in the city on that day.
Then they’ll manually check the pictures and probably notice instantly that the make and model don’t match.
Bonus points if you can provide proof in advance that you weren’t there. Then they won’t even have to check the picture.
That’s what you get for never going to Belgium in your life.
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There’s instructions on the third page I think on how to oppose it.
by any chance you rented a car recently ? the number plate could be europcar
Pay it anyway, we can use all the money we can get our hands on.
IAN(L)AL, but I know a thing or two about traffic law. This fine definitely looks legit.
Have you been to Holland? The place mentioned (Indaver) is very close to the Dutch border.
Other things to look out for are the other pages. Feel free to share thos, even in a private message.
Melhor pagar mesmo
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I live in Belgium and once got a ticket for ignoring a sign. Even when me and my wife presented evidence we we’re at our jobs that day, at that hour and not around Brussels, we still had to pay thé ticket. Could be someone with a copied plate, or like in our instance probably, a cop who noted it manualy, but got the plate number wrong. Type and color of the vehicle on the ticket are from the database, and not an assasement of the cop… 184 euro’s, if i recall correctly.
Ask for the photos. Sometimes the cameras read similar plates incorrectly.
Ha! I just paid one of those about 10 minutes ago. Same price. It was actually me though.
In German? From antwerp? Smells fishy to me..
2030 Antwerpen is the port of Antwerp. Not a lot of speeding cameras there but one of them got me a few years back. 129 euros fine… while doing my student job. 1,5 days of working down the drain
I had/have a fine for about the same amount in a location I haven’t been in my entire life and it was during work hours and about 150km (2h drive) away from my work location. You can very easily dispute the fine online and they will look into it. I specifically asked for the photo that identifies my car and 5 months later the dispute is still in the “CONTESTATION ON FACTS RECEIVED” state. No news whatsoever inbetween, I doubt I’ll ever have to pay the fine as they simply can’t prove I was there, I simply couldn’t have been.
The website to dispute is the same one where you can pay for it, just make sure you’re contesting it.
Dude, Antwerp doesn’t send police invoices in German.
Looks like scam to me
Thats the price you pay for not visiting our beautiful country.
Don’t pay it.
We have national budget deficit. That’s why we charge unsuspecting foreigners with bogus fines to close the hole.
There’s an email system for these things, if I’m not mistaken. My husband got a fine while he was whizzing around on a scooter and he wrote an email apologising to them and they waived it. It helps that he was on a low speed electric scooter. Write them an explanation, attach some proof and you’ll be off the hook.
Do NOT pay for it, I repeat, do NOT pay for it. Make an appeal. If you pay and then make the appeal it will be sooo much harder.
Had a situation like this and I payed. The traffic worker told me it was a terrible mistake because now it was super hard to go on with the appeal. I didn’t get any money back.
The amount of people on this topic saying it’s a fake fine is amazing. This is a legit fine. The IBAN mentioned is also on the official website of the police. Why shout “fake” when you clearly have no clue…just don’t comment if you have no idea what you are talking about? OP: it’s a real fine, protest and call to your car rental service to figure it out.
Someone might be driving around with your license plate
They probably read number plate wrong. I had same situation where they fined me for speeding in Brussels while I was in America. Contact them and ask for the picture evidence.
Tu paies et tu fermes ton gueule sinon tu montes dans le Golf.
They once tryed to make me pay a fine in a village i had never heard of. With a car that was not the car that matched my nummerplate. And with a “remork” (never owned 1) .
Costed me 4 phonecalls and a visit of the local cops to check my car.
After that they stopped sending me reminders to pay.
Whatever you do. Don’t pay
Actually check up on it and don’t pay immediately. Could definitely be a scam. Someone I know barely got scammed in the same way and it looked just as legit as this.
My dad received something similar today. He has to pay a ticket of 221 euro for speeding in Charleroi while he was working with his car in our hometown. I think its some kind of scam.
Also vehicle characteristics just said: vehicle. Which is weird.
Reply, and send them proof of your location at that time
Belgian police are incompetent
Is this a legit letter?
Maybe someone copied your lisence plate i advise you to take contact with the police and explain your case asap
It is in German. Is that possible for something that happend in Antwerp?
Ahh, ze speed tax.
According to me its a fake. Police from Flemish towns do not send tickets in another language than Dutch… even to other countries…
But maybe I’m wrong…
Sprich deutsch du… sorry wrong sub
It happened to my grandmother as well, it can happen that car from different nationalities have the same license plate or they make a reading mistake. In our case I asked for the photo, and showed that model and brand of the car were different. So we didn’t have to pay anything
haha it’s a stationary speed camera I drive by allmost daily. It’s a real cash-cow as it’s more like a stroboscoop in the mornings. Especialy now when it’s still dark it’s on the daily i see it flash.
Belgian police so efficient it knows the crimes you’ll do in the future
pay now, don’t have to worry later!
People, stop renting cars from EUROPE cars, they are the worst scum of them all.
Why did you do it?
This kind of fraud is quite common apparently. The only thing you can do is to write to the police at Antwerp telling them that it was not you; that it was a rental car; and do they have a photo proving that it was you driving the vehicle? The best approach is to be polite. If you have a copy of the rental contract, perhaps you could enclose a copy. It might also be a good idea to tell them were you actually were on that day.
This is a scam. I live in Antwerp, Belgium and we speak Flemish NOT German. The letter is in German yet claiming to be from Antwerp 🚩
I’ve had this happen twice.
It’s an automatic process based on tag recognition and yeah it’s not perfect.
Just appeal and explain you weren’t in the city on that day.
Then they’ll manually check the pictures and probably notice instantly that the make and model don’t match.
Bonus points if you can provide proof in advance that you weren’t there. Then they won’t even have to check the picture.
That’s what you get for never going to Belgium in your life.
This is the most Belgian thing ever