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Karen64
11-02-2007, 01:07 PM
A friend sent me an e-mail with several little-known tips and tricks on protecting your credit and other miscellaneous pieces of advice....
One of them was that if you get a traffic ticket, you can avoid having it go on your insurance and on your record by overpaying the ticket. When you send them the check for the ticket, just make the check out for maybe a couple of dollars over the amount.
Then they are required to send you a check for the overpayment. But if you NEVER cash this check, the transaction is never completed and it just hangs in beaurocratic limbo forever.
Anyone else ever heard this? I wonder if it works.

Mikado
11-02-2007, 01:34 PM
Im no lawyer but, that sounds unlikely to me. I think once you pay, overpayment or not, there's a paper trail and a record.