I'd call either the agency or court associated with the ticket and find out directly.

Sounds like a scam.

Don't call any number given to you in the letter or by somebody trying to contact you. Call the court directly and ask them about it.

txags92 said:

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Don't call any number given to you in the letter or by somebody trying to contact you. Call the court directly and ask them about it.

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You call back after you confirm it's a scam. Keep them on the line for hours promising you're on the way to get them the gift cards required to settle up.

Its glorious

It is 100% a legitimate case and the attorney office is legit. But it pays to have contacts. A couple texts and someone is resolving it at the courthouse now. They think the attorney office used AI/web/database scraping tools and the algorithm said I was a good enough match.

Final update. Deputy contact pulled case files and yes, only association with me is a shared first and last name. I appear nowhere in the case files. Vehicle I've never owned, email address I've never had. No warrants for me and nothing else for me to do.

And law enforcement/county courts wonders why they are almost universally distrusted

That's the kind of Citation I was expecting to find here!

AlphaBean said:

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Final update. Deputy contact pulled case files and yes, only association with me is a shared first and last name. I appear nowhere in the case files. Vehicle I've never owned, email address I've never had. No warrants for me and nothing else for me to do.

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This is exactly what a criminal would say.

Motor Trend Car of the Year 1980!

If you know you never had a ticket in that jurisdiction, I would ignore it

Scams can be so dammed sophisticated.

I had one call me a couple years ago that was pretty involved. Said they were serving me for something. When would I be home. Had A LOT of personal information. Since the possibility of being sure in my business does exist it had a small inkling of possibility. Since I never believe anyone that calls out of the blue I was vague, didn't answer anything and told them to come serve me at their convenience. Hung up. They kept calling. Blocked them. Then they went next level in my experience. They called my wife. She never answers at work, so they left a message. They left me messages too, to call and pay them to make it go away. Ultimately their story broke down. I found it interesting and concerning that they had developed enough enough background information to have my info and my wife's info and a basic amount of background on me. They fell short on how they were going to actually get paid, but they or ai or something had compiled a lot of information.

I have gotten to the point that I don't believe ANYTHING I get phone, email, mail. Whatever.

AlphaBean said:

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Final update. Deputy contact pulled case files and yes, only association with me is a shared first and last name. I appear nowhere in the case files. Vehicle I've never owned, email address I've never had. No warrants for me and nothing else for me to do.

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Back in the 1990s my cousin got pulled over and subsequently hauled into Bexar County Jail by SAPD. They were looking for a guy named Mares, but somewhere along the way the handwritten name Mares got keyed into the computer system as Mapes (the same last name of my cousin). A couple of other fields matched, so the cops assumed they had their man. Lawyer told my cousin the best he could expect was a verbal apology from the police and it would be a waste of effort to file suit about a clerical error even though he spent a night in the clink for nothing.

Yeah, that's a story a criminal would tell.

AlphaBean said:

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Final update. Deputy contact pulled case files and yes, only association with me is a shared first and last name. I appear nowhere in the case files. Vehicle I've never owned, email address I've never had. No warrants for me and nothing else for me to do.

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My first and last names are both among the top 10 most popular names in the US. So I can't wait to see what I get.

When we were checking into the hospital for kid #2, the clerk got her panties in a wad because we had an unpaid bill at the hospital and wasn't going to let us admit. Gee, is it possible that the woman with the same very common first and last names as my wife and my wife were two different people? Especially as the address was from 20 miles away from ours?

This is after we had been in two weeks prior for pre-check in.

Wife was ready to go home, and let the clerk explain it to the OB in the morning. But a family friend and doctor just happened to be there that night checking on a patient, and he made the clerk see the light.

Doc recently passed, left a great Aggie legacy. Carl Weidenbach '55

In 1999 I had a warrant issued for my arrest in Amarillo.

I appeared before the judge and showed him the receipt that I had kept when I paid the ticket. He sent me to the clerk and it was dropped. Just a simple clerical error.

I was fortunate because I happened to keep the receipt in my glovebox. I have always been horrible at keeping up with paperwork. Got lucky with that receipt.

You should send the law firm an invoice or bill for your hours spent researching and figuring out their error. Just like they would bill you a stupid amount for their time.

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AlphaBean said:

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Final update. Deputy contact pulled case files and yes, only association with me is a shared first and last name. I appear nowhere in the case files. Vehicle I've never owned, email address I've never had. No warrants for me and nothing else for me to do.

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Back in the 1990s my cousin got pulled over and subsequently hauled into Bexar County Jail by SAPD. They were looking for a guy named Mares, but somewhere along the way the handwritten name Mares got keyed into the computer system as Mapes (the same last name of my cousin). A couple of other fields matched, so the cops assumed they had their man. Lawyer told my cousin the best he could expect was a verbal apology from the police and it would be a waste of effort to file suit about a clerical error even though he spent a night in the clink for nothing.

Yeah, that's a story a criminal would tell.

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