Heaven help you if you get a traffic ticket in Lawrenceville, Ga. Their summons says that to pay the fine you can visit a website or call 844-229-2183. But when I called that number the other day, a dude with a thick Indian accent answered and tried to sell me identity theft protection services.

He didn't know anything about paying a ticket, but I'm guessing he would have been more than happy to take my payment info. Called back today and it was something about free rewards gift cards.

@briankrebs Their own website says not to call the 844 number, so they're certainly aware of it: https://www.lawrencevillega.org/253/Payment-Information

Based on Wayback Machine, they've known since at least December 2023: https://web.archive.org/web/20231216012015/https://www.lawrencevillega.org/248/Municipal-Court

(other pages also have this message, if you Google the number)

@AlesandroOrtiz Interesting, thanks. If they've known about it this long, why don't they change the text of their tickets?
@briankrebs @AlesandroOrtiz they probably ordered 50k tickets a long time ago, figured what the hell, buying in bulk is great… πŸ€¦β€β™‚οΈ