Scofflaws used stolen credit cards to pay off thousands of dollars in parking tickets on the city’s Web site, a Department of Investigations probe has found.
They paid off more than $15,000 in tickets in the nine-month period ending in April 2008, the most recent records provided to The Post after a Freedom of Information request.
In some cases, suspects were busted after credit-card companies and banks alerted the Department of Finance about the charges.
Rameez Mustafa, 38, of Freeport was nabbed in 2008 for using a swiped card to pay 12 parking tickets for about $1,700.
Mustafa also used it to clear his E-ZPass bills and pay for car insurance.
He pleaded guilty the next year to attempted identify theft but avoided jail by agreeing to pay restitution.
The DOI also nabbed Janelle Allen, 26, of Brooklyn. She allegedly paid almost $1,000 in tickets for three cars using a card she swiped from a relative.
She also racked up an additional $17,000 in charges on the card and was charged with identity theft.
The investigation, which started in 2008, found other fraudsters had also used stolen cards to pay off their tickets. They had to pay back the money but there was not enough evidence for criminal charges.