First they came for concert tickets, then restaurant reservations. Now scalpers have reportedly set their eyes on the DMV.
According to ABC affiliate WLPG, the Miami-Dade tax collector’s office discovered what it says is an operation to book and hoard time slots for DMV appointments, then sell them to desperate motorists for up to $250 a pop.
“When you run the report, you see that one phone number makes like 100 appointments,” says tax collector Daniel Fernandez. “So we started looking into that, and the system red-flagged that.”
Fernandez hopes to make such activity illegal and punishable by a fine or even possibly jail time, which seems like an appropriate sentence for someone evil enough to make the DMV experience even more miserable.