There seems to be no check on the pay-and-park mafia in the city, which has been blatantly operating with fake signboards and even receipts. A report outlined how a biker received an e-challan from the Borivli Traffic Division, after they towed his bike from a pay-and-park facility outside Borivli station, where he had paid charges, and also received a receipt. The biker was later told it was an unauthorised parking lot.

A young man saw a pay-and-park signboard of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) hung on a tree at a spot, complete with rules and parking rates. He was even issued a receipt in the name of Hari Om Enterprises, located at Chandavarkar Cross Road, R/Central Ward, Borivli West. He paid a sum to a person with a receipt book, but by noon, his bike had disappeared. It had been towed by the traffic police. The man with the receipt book had disappeared too. He then learnt at the traffic division that this was no authorised BMC facility.