Fake eTraffic Ticket Platform sites try to steal card details, Hong Kong police say

According to the Information Services Department, HKSAR Government, the Hong Kong Police Force has identified fraudulent websites posing as the "eTraffic Ticket Platform". The fake sites offer discounts for paying traffic fines early, which is the detail that gives them away: no such discount exists on the genuine service.

The scam depends on one step working: a person believing a fine can be paid cheaper and faster than through the real channel, then typing a credit card number into a page built to collect it. Once that single click happens, the rest of the scam runs itself.

How the real system is built to be checked, not trusted on sight

The genuine platform is at https://www.etrafficticket.gov.hk. A vehicle registration mark and Fixed Penalty Notice number entered there pull up the real record: date, time, location of the offence. That lookup is the part a reader can act on, because it does not require trusting a link at all.

Two other details work the same way. Every official SMS about a fixed penalty notice comes from the sender name "#HKPF-eTT"; anything from another sender claiming to be a ticket is not genuine. And no electronic FPN, by SMS or email, will ever contain a hyperlink. A message with a link in it has already failed that test, regardless of how official it looks.

This is the kind of pattern that rewards automated watching rather than one-off vigilance: a fake domain, a spoofed sender name and a false discount claim, all checkable against fixed facts the police have published, which is the sort of signal Flggd tracks for readers rather than leaving them to remember it mid-message.

What this changes for someone who gets the message

Knowing the three facts above turns a judgment call into a lookup. A reader does not need to decide whether a message feels legitimate. They need to check the sender name, check whether a link is present at all, and check the domain ending. A government site in Hong Kong ends in ".gov.hk"; a site that does not is not a government site, whatever it claims to be.

Anyone who has already entered personal information into one of the fraudulent sites can contact the Anti-Deception Coordination Centre on 18222. General enquiries about the Platform go to 181 181.

The next useful step for anyone who gets an unexpected fine message is to open the real platform directly, type in the vehicle registration and FPN number themselves, and compare what comes back against whatever the message claimed.