Before and besides the privacy issues, the parking due (if paid at the time) amounted to less than 10 $, and it became 80 $.<p>The article doesn't specify how much time has passed, but it must not have been much (days, weeks, maybe months) there is something perverse in any mechanism that allows 800% grow of a debt in a short time.<p>BTW, the message seems to me (and this probably show how old I am) like a perfect example of the phishing "Please click here to learn more" kind that we were taught to ignore and NOT reply to.