What's so precious about a number plate?

You attract threats, Muzzgit?
Lucky bugger. All I get are condolences.
Ahh well. At least being over the hill suggests a down hill slide/capside.

Unanamous Jeff.

ps. the radio News just repeated that the two Lads dropped in '65 in SVN are coming home. Am happy for Family and mates, eh.
Full marks to their Mates for making it happen, and heaps of Bleep on the govt. for being slack-arsed, big-mouthed self-important "do nothings".

And that's not just the present , er (shall we say forgetfull) mob.
All the bloody same, eh.
Why don't the pricks who hate each other/fear each other/lust after others perceived possessions, not simply rip their shirts off and beat each other to a pulp?

LEAVE THE BLOODY KIDS ALONE, YOU UNSPEAKABLE #@!(*&^S
OR IF YOU CAN'T, THEN LOOK AFTER THEM OR THEIR WIDOWS AFTER THE DUST THAT you STIRRED UP HAS SETTLED. i stop. teach.

That's one of the reasons I thought somebody might suggest. If this was the case, that person would one of the ones I mentioned who would be too scared to go out for a sunday drive. They'd be afraid somebody might tail them back home and pinch all their gear or even their whole rig.

However, say I wanted to knock your stuff off, even if I could see your number plate on here (ie: if your rig pic showed your number plate), I still wouldn't know your name or your whereabouts in the world. So, unless I worked for the Dept of Motor Vehicles/Registry etc (or ASIO), I would have no way of tracking you down anyway.

So, I'm still confused. I must admit to having been quite open about where I live and if anybody wanted to check up on White Pages on-line, they'd find my phone number and street address....I'm still not worried, cos I own a Patrol and not a toyota....so nobody is gunna bother trying to pinch anything off me anyway. hahahaha

"Thieves have jobs too....stealing your stuff !"

And they work bloody hard at it too.

"If I have your number plate, there's a good chance that I can trace where you live."

Providing you don't work for the Dept of Transport in my state, or a police officer .... could you give me a brief rundown on how you're going to go about tracing where I live from my number plate. I hear about this all the time and am very interested in how it actually works.

Cheers ..... Geoff

I think it is covered further down this thread with spiteful people dobbing in modded vehicles to the RTA and then copping an inspection letter - why put yourself through the grief.

Geoff,

It used to be common practice in Vic a few years ago that if involved in a minor accident you could attend Vicroads and pay the required amount ($5) to obtain the details of the registered owner that you collided with. The $5 fee was to stop unscrupulous people from obtaining your details unlawfully (???) - no inspection or report required.

It's now out the door with the 'new' privacy laws - about the only 'good' thing they did...

Tim, that may have been the case "a few years ago", but it doesn't answer my question to Footloose on how he's going to go about tracing where I live from my number plate.

Geoff

Geoff,

Would you believe lots of spare time and Google Earth......LOL

Hi Geoff, about the only way is if you know some one that works for the RTA or police. I have 3 police personnel in my family. 1 uncle, two cousins, give me your number plate and bet I could tell you where you live with in 24 hours. Had a bloke that ran up my ar#e a few years back and did a runner but was lucky enough to get number plate, he was very surprised when I turned up at his door step in Werrington NSW took some pics of his car and one of him when he opened the door. Gave him a choice of giving me his details or I stood there and rang the cops straight away and get him charged for leaving the scene of an accident. He payed up the next day $500 for damage. Dont blame some people for hiding there number plates especially for all to see on a web site. Thats why a lot of people at 4wd shows and events cover there plates as you are not insured if participating in events hence cover the plate incase they damage some thing then put a claim in down the track. You could imagine the investigators with there digi cameras snapping away waiting for some body to make a shonky claim. Regards Steve M

>how he's going to go about tracing where I live from my number plate.

$100 will do it.

The same way the cops do when they pull you up and check out your details UNLESS you have the vehicle registered in company name and the company is not your home address. I have also heard it many a times on the scanner when there doing a check on some one. Now (due to privacy laws) the police must have a reason for looking up your details but hey not hard if your sitting in the wright seat. Regards Steve M

Geoff, the answer to that is an emphatic NO.

If anyone gives out private information from government computers they are putting their head in a noose.
Its also not hard to narrow it down to who did it,as every keystroke in police computers is traceable.
And who is going to give out details to a car thief??

I never bother hiding my plate details. Anyone who does is irrational .
If a thief wants some big tyres and a chrome bullbar ,he only has to wander around a suburban shopping centre and follow you home.

Ross, you are correct up to a point. There are ways around that, some deceptively simple.
And we are not necessarily talking thrives of opportunity, there's a thriving midnight spares network or two out there.
Lets say I put in my order for an 80 litre Waeco fridge, and a Garmin GPS. Now just following you home might not get the goodies, especially if you have a guard dog and nosey neighbours.
So our thief is going to the house that has the goodies, and watch the movements at that residence. Might take a week or three, but your GPS and fridge are gone, and perhaps also your re birthed 4wd.

"private information from government computers"

LOL do you think this information is only available on government computers ? Think insurance companies, motoring organizations, etc etc etc

Gramps Im well aware this info is on many computer systems but he would have to be a clever thief to know which ones and have an insider there to give him the info.
If a thief was that clever he would have worked out where you live on his own.LOL

There has been a handfull of car thefts related to information leaks but they are in a minority so small its barely worth thinking about.

Could be that he can't be stuffed doing it or not wanting to embaress you with showing off his goodies. LOL
Maybe he needs computor lessons on downsizing pictures.
In the past, I've sent piccies to my lovely friend Mrs Al and she did it for me. LOL

I post as "Roachie", cos that what both of my friends call me. I don't think it's too much of a secret that my name is Bill Roach and you wouldn't have to be Sherlock Homes to find out my phone number or addy just by looking at White Pages on line.

I try not to be paranoid. I don't see how advertising my number plate is gunna make it any easier for someone to find me.

At work (NAB) we are under threat of having our knackers cut-out if we should happen to leave a client's tax file number on their file (which is, in itself, a confidential document.....the only outside authority who could look at it would be the tax dept or the police). I have never been able to work that one out either. Hell, if anybody wants to know my TFN, just let me know......they'd be more than welcome to it......the only thing I can see that they would be able to do with it is PAY MY TAX FOR ME!!!! (after all, the only other possibility would be if they phoned the ATO, quoted my number and asked that the ATO send them some money.....yeh, that'd work, eh!!!!!?????).

Similarly, some businesses are still reluctant to quote their bank account details on Invoices they send out to their clients. Hell, everytime they issue a cheque they're giving out those "vital" details.

I just think people are getting a bit precious these days.

Roachie, some transactions require your TFN . Some require your drivers license. I've been the subject of identitiy theft (many times if you confuse me with those fellas who don't play with a round ball :)). Seriously, identity theft is rife and until you become aware of it, usually well after the theft, it's expensive and there's often not a lot you can do about it.
PS My real name is Biill Roach too ! Now, all I need is your address and all my bills can come to you :))))))))))))

Strewth, I even had some bloke impersonating ME on the TV show called "Missing Persons" a few months back. Fair dinkum....there is a missing bloke by the name of Bill Roach.!!!! hahaha

Never let your tax file number out or you may find yourself paying someone elses taxes until you can explain to the tax gestapo that you are the victim of identity theft.

Owen

My real name is Bill Roach too and TFN is 761 122 G98. Please send me money

Now this post has gone off on another tangent, Do any of these scribes above use a credit card to purchase items. If so this is by far an easier way to gain identity theft that someones Rego number.

I'm with you Roachie, you would have to park the vehicle, never use your credit card either over the internet or at a business anywhere and sit and watch the idiot box for the rest of your life... Ooooops now you will make mega bucks from work, have nothing to spend it on so now you are a prime target for a robbery.

Lets face it guys, why would anyone want to pinch the identity of a fourby owner, they would know we don't have any extra money left after buying all our toys.

i had an uncle Bill Roach....he always told aunt he was going to come back and haunt her........so are all you lot dead too?....

Membar number Oooh no;
only parts of me

Only from the neck up MN1

Oooh Fonz , so cruel. And I thought you were a ....hang on...thats EXACTLY what I thought LOL

I was referring to myself Footy

Bonz..you ? Dead from the neck up ? Naaah. Compared to some here you're an Einstien :)))

awwwwwwwwww

Good point mate.......

Wouldn't we all like to meet Mr Scrubby in an alley on a dark night..........baseball bats anyone?

Benny, I know for a fact that his wife can't park his Forrester ! I shouldn't say this but she may need a bull bar on her rear end :))

I have offered to take him to Charleville at night , riding on the front of my bull bar so that he can be close to the action.
I didn't offer to bring him home :)

Maybe we could dob Scrubby in to the EPA or where-ever, saying that his forrester is blowing smoke. Get HIM put off the road for a while......hahahaha

Cheers mate....that's the best one I've read so far. I think you're onto something.

The same process was being used in Perth through some of the clubs (which ones I dont know, it was reported back via a WAFWDA meeting) by CALM/ DECheads. they were prosecuting people for illegal offroad activities and the such based on pictures that had been posted on websites and forums etc.

I certainly dont advocate illegal 4wding (although I could probably be held accountable once or twice myself for doing something I shouldnt), but I could see how it would be easy to confuse someones act as something it was not i.e. not in a illegal area. I mean, most pine trees look the same to me...

G'day mate,

Thanks, we're all keeping well mate.........

Yeh, thanks for your ideas........I reckon I've been edumacated a bit tonight. I must admit, the original post was more of a stir....I was bored at work cos a crucial 'puter program we use had been "down" all day. Even Annette said "you must have been bored to write such a useless post!!!"....hahaha

Are you still at "the Bay"?

Yeh Bill,
Working for Alvannex 200m down the road from the old Ult factory, now driving a Hilux (Yota) but plenty of country to cover.
Drop us a line sometime goldie@primusonline.com.au
And its cold here so posting a stupid reply to a stupid question at least keeps the circulation going (may also be a good idea to take up Alisons offer) bye Hahaha.

Ian

Yeh I guess you could be right Wazza; but nothing you have said wouldn't apply to "LIVE" situations too.

EG: I might "steal" a carparking space that you were trying to get into, or I might have cut you off at a Give Way sign etc (the possibilities are endless). Same deal....you could make several calls to police or EPA or whatever. But the only way I could avoid such occurences would be to drive around with my number plates obscured.

I guess the internet provides a wider base of possible assailents , eh??

Aye, true. It is more likely people on the road would to do such a thing.

Hey Roachie, I was feeling a little worried about coming to Warraweena after all this discussion, with a heap of the people who visit this website being there, but I believe I have solved the problem.
I got a set of plates made for my vehicle with the number WRX 259, so now I have no worries who see's me or what I do. :-)

Sorry mate I just had to do it LOL

Ebay accounts are easy to steal. Mine's been done 3 times. Just answer an email that looks ridgy didge but isn't. Bingo !
Best trick is to ignore all emails and check for messages through My Ebay.

Plain and clear.......... How many Tojo's have you recovered?????????????????

Cheers

D

What an interesting web site. Regards Steve M

Pete, its not about driving around.

Example ,

Raving Left field anti 4wd Greenie.

Black 1990 Pajero with number plates XXX111 seen doing donuts in Cockle Creek Campground.

Shoot that off the Nat Parks.

Sounds like a creditable witness doesn't it , as they have a piccie of your vehicle , with a heck of a description.

Would you think Nat Parks would look into it ?

Nope, still not worried.

I have the original unedited photo with embedded exif data showing the actual date and time the shot was taken.

Anyway if they had a camera why take a photo of the vehicle parked, why not take one of me actually damaging the environment.

Pete

I wouldn't send the photo , just the details.

Anyway , doesn't matter , you are comfortable with your position , thats fine.

Was just showing how easy it COULD be to misuse.