I got a bill claiming non-payment on an outstanding ticket on my car with a ticket number and it was from the Mount Rainier, MD Police Dept. Neither my husband or I have been to Mt. Rainier in 30 + years! We thought it odd we never received any correspondence from the police dept. about an outstanding ticket and the collection notice gives no other info besides the so-called ticket number. We reieived it in May of 07 and I promptly wrote back, as suggested on the notice, and told them I would need a lot more info before I was sending anybody $250! I never heard from them again and we recently bought a car with a credit rating that was nearly perfect. I assumed that it was a scam from the start and that they somehow got license plate numbers and randomly sent out demands for money with the underlying threat of ruining your credit. I got curious today and google-ed the company expecting no results and found all these people that have had credit problems. Guess I was lucky!
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