Those e-mails demanding payment for traffic tickets? Fake, fake, fake, fake

Here’s what the state of Florida wants you to do with those e-mails from the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles telling you to pay up on those traffic tickets you forgot: Delete them.

Because you didn’t forget those traffic tickets. You never got them. And those e-mails aren’t from the state DMV.

They’re scam e-mails.

That’s why the state issued a warning this week about these electronic short cons. The warning flatly states:

The DMV and Clerks of Court do not e-mail citations; they don’t make you pay citations by e-mail; and citation numbers are always seven numbers.

Anyone receiving such an e-mail should call the DMV or the local Clerk of the Court immediately.

This story was originally published December 21, 2016 at 2:01 PM with the headline "Those e-mails demanding payment for traffic tickets? Fake, fake, fake, fake."