Should get a James Bond license plate for toll roads.
Go to the Post Office and File a Formal CRIMINAL COMPLAINT of MAIL FRAUD, which is a FELONY for EVERYONE, NO EXCEPTIONS
A while ago, I got 3 tolls in the mail for a car that wasn’t mine on a highway that I never drove on (and in another city). Same license plate characters, different state, though.
For the first 2, I called them and they removed the charges. For the third one, I decided to ignore them to see what would happen.
So, on the third one, they never followed up. That convinced me that the mailings are automatic and assumed to be in-state. A human will only check after someone contests the charges OR when it’s time to start the threatening letters.
So, why bother contesting fake charges, just ignore them...at least here in Texas.
Just wait until the ‘Rats start erroneously sending out the SWAT teams.
As I pulled through a fast food place the other day I noticed the car in front of me had a license plate but it was obscured with a plastic cover that made the letters and numbers very unreadable.
I’m thinking Toll Roads are the problem.
I’ve seen plates an anti camera license plate cover ,LOL
Was paying cash getting off the NJ Turnpike. Picked a lane only to find a sign stating, ‘Attendant Away - Drive Through’. Lucky me - an early Christmas gift. Nope. Got the bright yellow envelope in the mail with additional charges and legal threats. Bet ya a gazillion letters were sent out because of that one booth. What a scam.
I got a bill for a toll bridge, with a fuzzy photo in the corner.
Not my car, not my brand, and they couldn’t define one of the numbers.
So, I figure they sent out 10 bills, one for each digit, to 10 vehicle owners.
I made a good case and was OKed. The threat was: no registration at DMV time.
I don’t see why they’re making such a big deal about this. A similar thing happened to me. The actual vehicle was the same color, almost the same make, with a handicap tag like mine, with one digit different from mine. It was a Silverado, but mine had a trailer hitch with an extendable step, and an “LTZ” logo on the tailgate that the offending vehicle didn’t have. The toll authority had sent me a couple of photos and it sure was easy to see how they interpreted the tag as mine. But I sent a photo of the rear of my vehicle along with my alternate interpretation of the questionable digit of the license tag and it turned out to be correct. They emailed me an acknowledgement that they found the correct vehicle and owner.
National newsworthy it isn’t.
The city of Los Angeles has for about twenty years run a scam where they send parking ticket fines for:
1. Cars that were never in LA
2. Cars that don’t exist
3. Cars that people don’t own
We had the same thing happen. Got a letter in Alaska from Colorado saying we owed for a toll. That vehicle was in Alaska the whole time, so no way could it have been us. We disputed and they cancelled the charge. Fortunately, we have no toll roads in Alaska.
About a year and a half ago I got a ticket from the New York/New Jersey Port Authority for not paying a toll. The ticket had a low resolution photo of the offending vehicle. The number was the same as mine, but a frame obscured the state for the plate. Our car was nothing at all like the car in the photo, and the plate number matched, but the plate in the photo was not my Michigan plate.
I sent a letter contesting the ticket but never heard back. Who knows, maybe there’s an arrest warrant out for me in New York and/or New Jersey for an unpaid EZ Pass toll.
I didn’t know the bypass around Clayton was a toll road. I’ll avoid it by taking the old road through town the next time I’m heading to that part of the coast.
We live in Colorado and kept getting tolls charged to us from a license plate that matched my husband’s car. I knew it wasn’t us b/c it was all out near the airport on the toll road. They were very nice when I called and looked up the photos. It turns out there was a rental car from Nevada with the same plate as ours.