A driver has been left scared and confused after finding someone had stuck fake number plates onto her car.
Charlotte Grundy fears the car had been 'prepped for theft' and someone was planning to break into her home and take the keys.
Charlotte spotted the strange crime on Saturday afternoon when she went to her car to collect her sunglasses from her vehicle in Hale.
Afyer spotting that the colour of her number plate wasn't quite right she realised that it had a film on it - and that it wasn't her number plate at all - it was a fake one that had been stuck on.
"Everyone is saying it was being prepped to be stolen," Charlotte told the MEN She fears that someone may have been plotting to break into her flat to get the key for her car - but that they got 'disturbed'.
"We just don't know, it's quite scary," she said. Charlotte said the fake plate isn't registered with the DVLA - so it wouldn't come up on any ANPR cameras.
The fake plate on the back of her car had a film on it that caught Charlotte's attention (Image: Charlotte Grundy)
People online, in the Hale and Altrincham General Facebook group, believe that the film on the number plate is designed to be reflective so the cameras can't pick it up.
