CBA-4589 is an obviously fake number plate. Do you know why?

CBA-4589 is an obviously fake number plate. Do you know why?

2026-11-04

Can you look at a car’s number plate and tell whether it’s a fake? Well, a shoddy counterfeit is really easy to spot. For example, a car in Yilan was recently seen on the streets with a glaringly fake number plate, CBA-4589. One dead giveaway was the number 4, which has not featured on license numbers since 2012, due to the number’s similar pronunciation to the word for death in Mandarin and Taigi. Let’s hear more.

Huang Yi-na
Yilan Motor Vehicles Office
The layout for the CBA-4589 has three digits at the front and four numbers at the back. This 3 + 4 layout is the new number plate format, which started in 2012. In the new format, number plates do not feature the number 4, so it is immediately clear that it was a fake.

Wu Ya-ling
Police officer
We identified the route and notified available officers to strengthen search and interception efforts to apprehend the suspect soon.

The number 4 does still feature on some number plates, but only in the old format containing just 6 digits. What’s more, there are also certain letter combinations that have been banned. That includes CBA, which also happens to be the initials for the Chinese Baseball Association. Riding a vehicle with a fake number plate carries fines of up to NT$72,000 and the confiscation of the vehicle.

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#numberplate #funfact #numbers #puns #cba

車牌出現4.CBA! 駕駛掛假車牌上路警鎖定攔查到案

2026-11-04

宜蘭蘇澳有民眾目擊，一輛白色休旅車懸掛"CBA-4589"車牌，在路上行駛，看似一般的車牌，卻有眼尖駕駛看穿是假車牌！宜蘭監理站證實，4在台語、國語中，與「死」諧音，常被視為不吉利，監理站順應民意，自101年起發行的7位數車牌，已全面剔除數字4，警方目前已鎖定該車動線，將攔查到案。

[[宜蘭監理站副站長黃藝娜]]
“CBA-4589，看起來它的字軌叫做前三後四，那前三後四是屬於新式號牌，新式號牌從101年，新式號牌核發到現在，已經排除了所有4的部分，所以以此來判斷，這一面牌肯定就是一個偽造的號牌”

[[宜蘭蘇澳分局四組組長吳雅玲]]
“警方已鎖定該車行駛動線，並通報線上警力，積極加強攔查，期能儘速緝獲到案”

目前路上懸掛有數字4的車牌，只剩6位數舊式車輛，新式車牌不只4不應該出現，開頭的英文代碼"CBA"，因和中國職籃縮寫相同，公路局基於考量，沒有在台灣發行，駕駛懸掛假車牌上路，還得面臨最高7萬2千元罰鍰，車輛也會被沒收。

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