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They’re faking permits, changing expiry dates on the real thing and even photocopying the passes of deserving people.

Worse, others don’t even bother to pretend — they just barge in, taking the precious spaces reserved for those who can’t easily get around.

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But more than 200 scofflaw parkers in London are now $375 poorer after a city hall blitz targeting illegal use of accessible parking spaces.

Enforcement officers swooped down on more than 500 public and private parking lots, dishing out 236 tickets in the one-week crackdown that ended Sunday. The officers fanned out to all corners of the city.

Annette Drost, the city’s parking enforcement manager, took the high road in describing how the crackdown played out, saying “a lot of the feedback we heard from Londoners during the enforcement blitz was positive.”

Posers caught red-handed abusing the spaces by other drivers often come under harsh criticism.