I traded in my car over a month ago to a dealership and just got a violation notice in the mail for someone driving on a toll road a mountain over from me. I knew I wasn’t tripping and checked an app that tracks all my driving in my new car and I was actually no where near my own house or near this toll road when this happened. I hate toll roads and would never voluntarily drive on one.

Anyway, I called the toll road place up and was surprised when she said that the car was my old car, not the newer car I just got. The license plate listed on the violation was not the same license plate I had when I had that car. I was thinking this license plate was for my newer car, its temporary license plate, but even that didn’t make sense because I got my permanent plates pretty quickly and put them on ASAP.

The toll road wants me to email them with some information about myself and saying I no longer own the car. But honestly, I don’t know where this stuff is like the bill of sale or release for my old car. Maybe it’s in my paperwork from the dealership? Maybe not. I don’t know, but it’s crazy I need to go get this information because of something someone else did after I let go of the car.

So what would happen if I just ignore this and move on with my life? The violation notice says there will be a lean on the vehicle if I don’t respond by March 2025, but, again, not my vehicle.

Can anything happen to me? I’m also not feeling this because I don’t like that a company is requesting me to send information about myself to them for something I have no knowledge about. How do I even know this is legit and not a scammer posing as the toll road?!