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Old 22-11-2021, 10:07 PM   #1
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But then go onto have your full name, email, phone, birthday, spouses names, kids names, your friends names, where you work, the restaurants you like to go to, where you went on holiday last year etc all over your Facebook.
If someone has the ability and motivation to track down your car and steal it from the number plate alone, you better take them off when driving on the road aswell "just in case".
I just don't understand why people are still on this.
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Old 22-11-2021, 10:18 PM   #2
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But then go onto have your full name, email, phone, birthday, spouses names, kids names, your friends names, where you work, the restaurants you like to go to, where you went on holiday last year etc all over your Facebook.
If someone has the ability and motivation to track down your car and steal it from the number plate alone, you better take them off when driving on the road aswell "just in case".
I just don't understand why people are still on this.
I dont do facebook so blurring my plates in pics makes sense.
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Apart from my name and photos, I don't share any of those other things on FB. I will generally blur the plate if posting a photo of the car on a public group.

There is also a very obvious reason why people blur their plates.....traceability. Some people post some pretty stupid acts on social media, and they don't want that traced back to them I suppose? "I own a yellow car....but that yellow car doing skids in my video could be a yellow car owned by anyone."

I also noticed every car on carsales has the plates blurred. Is that done automatically? That I don't get, because anyone can act as an interested buyer and make a viewing.
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Apart from my name and photos, I don't share any of those other things on FB. I will generally blur the plate if posting a photo of the car on a public group.

I also noticed every car on carsales has the plates blurred. Is that done automatically? That I don't get, because anyone can act as an interested buyer and make a viewing.
It's done automatically on car sales.
That's done after you enter the vin and submit it...

And that's fine, I just don't understand why. If you're posting in a Facey group, everyone already can see your name and photos. So what's the insecurity about 6 or so characters on some tin?
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One reason is to prevent number plate cloning.

https://ferrallco.com.au/traffic-mat...plate-cloning/
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It's done automatically on car sales.
That's done after you enter the vin and submit it...

And that's fine, I just don't understand why. If you're posting in a Facey group, everyone already can see your name and photos. So what's the insecurity about 6 or so characters on some tin?
Only the gullible & drips use their real names and post their life stories on FB ect who deserve to be ripped by scammers, I use pseudonym name only with **** all info.
yea I would blur my number plate for anonymity if I was to post my vehicle image online.
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Old 23-11-2021, 03:23 PM   #7
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lol @ knobheads blurring their plates
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Lol, you have nothing to worry about with a VT Potty, you'd probably have to pay someone to flog it.
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Third party fire and theft club - they'd be doing me a favor if my ****box fleet get set on fire or stolen
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Because the NSA (aka "Google") scans all photos on the internet, and licence plate numbers are automatically decoded and then passed to the CIA, who then use their satellites to track every single car on the planet.

Thus they can identify all the people who never visit MacDonalds (and are therefore Anti-American Communist Vegans) and they can target them for mind-control, using the micro-chips contained in the Covid Vaccine.
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It's done automatically on car sales.
That's done after you enter the vin and submit it...

And that's fine, I just don't understand why. If you're posting in a Facey group, everyone already can see your name and photos. So what's the insecurity about 6 or so characters on some tin?
I think scammers set up fake adds of other people's cars to sell..

You know... "I'm on an oil rig and will let it go cheap and throw in delivery" type deals..

So, even though (I believe) the listings on CS actually mention the rego the plates are blurred to reduce the use of the pictures.
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I think scammers set up fake adds of other people's cars to sell..

You know... "I'm on an oil rig and will let it go cheap and throw in delivery" type deals..

So, even though (I believe) the listings on CS actually mention the rego the plates are blurred to reduce the use of the pictures.
From the horses carsales mouth......

https://business.carsales.com.au/ins...plate-cloning/
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From the horses carsales mouth......

https://business.carsales.com.au/ins...plate-cloning/
Wow - thanks for the idea carsales!
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Because the NSA (aka "Google") scans all photos on the internet, and licence plate numbers are automatically decoded and then passed to the CIA, who then use their satellites to track every single car on the planet.

Thus they can identify all the people who never visit MacDonalds (and are therefore Anti-American Communist Vegans) and they can target them for mind-control, using the micro-chips contained in the Covid Vaccine.
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If the plates on Carsales are blurred to prevent cloning, I reckon that no-one in the world, until now, has thought of taking a photo of targeted plates with their smart phone to facilitate cloning.
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If the plates on Carsales are blurred to prevent cloning, I reckon that no-one in the world, until now, has thought of taking a photo of targeted plates with their smart phone to facilitate cloning.
If they were good at cloning, surely they could create their own unique plates.
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One reason is to prevent number plate cloning.

https://ferrallco.com.au/traffic-mat...plate-cloning/
they don't just clone the plates. It is difficult to make false plates. Much easier to steal the plates off another car, same model. age and colour. That makes it easy for the owner to spot the missing plates and report them stolen and the police will then look out for those plates with their ANPR. So the thieves then go to a third car and take its plates, replacing them with the plates they stole from the second car. The owner of the third car is unlikely to notice that his plates have been swapped and the thieves can use his plates with little chance of being caught. After all who checks that they have the right number plates every time they get in their car.
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they don't just clone the plates. It is difficult to make false plates. Much easier to steal the plates off another car, same model. age and colour. That makes it easy for the owner to spot the missing plates and report them stolen and the police will then look out for those plates with their ANPR. So the thieves then go to a third car and take its plates, replacing them with the plates they stole from the second car. The owner of the third car is unlikely to notice that his plates have been swapped and the thieves can use his plates with little chance of being caught. After all who checks that they have the right number plates every time they get in their car.
But none of what you posted has anything to do with why they blur number plates online, all you wrote is how you'd go about getting dodgy plates.......
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…After all who checks that they have the right number plates every time they get in their car.
I do? Always have done a full walk-around every time before getting in. Tyres, badges, plates, glass, new marks are looked at. Only takes a few seconds and if you approach from the nearside rear corner the effort is less obvious.
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I do? Always have done a full walk-around every time before getting in. Tyres, badges, plates, glass, new marks are looked at. Only takes a few seconds and if you approach from the nearside rear corner the effort is less obvious.
Are you a cop? Reminds me of Police Quest....always fail that part.
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‘Ello, ‘ello, ‘ello…

Not a cop, just consider it my responsibility. Plus, if you’ve dailied an hydraulic Citroën, the walk-around allows you to monitor the rate of vital fluids being lost.
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There was a story on A Current Affair where a person was selling there black Toyota Lexus and this person made the mistake of putting the pictures of the car and by mistake the number plate in the picture for the ad.

Hackers made a copy of the number plate and it was printed on paper.
The red light camera, and speeding camera didnt know it a paper number plate and she was issued fines from all over the place.
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The government see you have not blurred your number plate in your ad ( because we know they are always watching ), so to teach you a lesson they clone your number plates then race through red light and speed camera's to raise revenue, you get the fine in the mail

So when you take a pic of your car now you have to wear a tin foil hat so the government dont know what your doing, then blur the number plate in the picture and they wont know who you are when you post it up .

If you have ever disputed a camera fine you will know it would have been easier just to pay the fine.
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If you have ever disputed a camera fine you will know it would have been easier just to pay the fine.

disputed ...... 3 times ... then they said - sorry. speeding, unregistered etc & plate was removed from a wreck!. i was NOT paying.
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disputed ...... 3 times ... then they said - sorry. speeding, unregistered etc & plate was removed from a wreck!. i was NOT paying.
We (Wife & I) have disputed a few over the years, & won each & every Time..
In all instances It involved an Interstate Registered Vehicle with the same Number Plate Combination..

Lazy Pricks just take the low hanging Fruit, & expect us to Pay..
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Hi Guy's
There was a story on A Current Affair where a person was selling there black Toyota Lexus and this person made the mistake of putting the pictures of the car and by mistake the number plate in the picture for the ad.

Hackers made a copy of the number plate and it was printed on paper.
The red light camera, and speeding camera didnt know it a paper number plate and she was issued fines from all over the place.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLDXLRFDgZ0

No need for anything special like SQL injection via number plates.
Hence why I blanked out my plates online because I'm not in the mood to have someone rack up fines on my behalf either.
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