Aarto traffic fine scam warning

[Hanno Labuschagne]

Aarto traffic fine scam warning

The Road Traffic Infringement Agency (RTIA) says the electronic servicing of Administrative Adjudication of Road Traffic Offences Act (Aarto) documents has not yet received the necessary legal approval.

RTIA spokesperson Monde Mkalipi urges motorists to disregard emails demanding payment for traffic fines, stating that any such email is fraudulent.

 

[deweyzeph]

Registered mail? So how does that work in a country where the postal service has all but collapsed, and vast swathes of the country have no access to postal mail services at all, including more and more suburbs of major metros? Registered mail still requires the notification slip to be placed in the postbox at the address of the recipient, just like any normal mail would be. Obviously this is impossible when there is no postal service. How much money is being wasted sending registered letters to addresses that simply will never ever receive them?

It's made even worse by a legal system that still refuses to acknowledge that our postal service has collapsed. Legally registered letters are considered to be served as long as the sender can prove that they sent the letter. There is no requirement to prove that the recipient of the letter actually received it. There is not even any requirement to prove that the address that the registered letter was sent to is even in an area that has postal service. This is completely out of touch with the reality of a failed postal system where there is no guarantee whatsoever that a registered letter will ever be received by the recipient.

 

[Randomwasavailable]

Can't we just give the government more money to fix this? That's always their suggestion, it seems.