The Metropolis of Calgary and Calgary Parking are warning residents to not work together with rip-off textual content messages asking for parking ticket funds.
In a social media put up on Monday, Calgary Parking stated it can by no means use textual content messages for ticket notifications or fee requests. The parking authority urges Calgarians to not reply to the texts. Calgarians are additionally requested to not click on the hyperlinks.
Those that acquired a rip-off textual content are inspired to report it to the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre.
“You’ll obtain a parking violation within the mail or on the windshield of your car. These are the one methods the Metropolis of Calgary or Calgary Parking will ever concern a parking violation,” Robert Whyte, coordinator of enterprise and expertise improvement with the Metropolis of Calgary, stated.
