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  1. Hi Everyone, I am from Netherlands and I'm pretty much having the same experience. I found this thread to be the most exhaustive and useful out of all on the Internet, so I decided to post here. I was in Spain for 5 days in June, and I received my first fine of 100 Euros (driving 130 in 110) in August which I payed promptly at the apl.dgt.es link I was very pleased that I saved 50 bucks with the discount and the fact tht the process was so smooth. Two weeks later, I received another fine of 100 euros which I again paid with a 50% discount. Both the fines had photograph of my rental car (the first one had the reverse end license plate and the second one had the front end). Today I received the 3rd fine, and this time no photograph. Only the official letter in spanish with the N.Expediente number , location etc. Now this drove me nuts. So I went back to the above payment site, and decided to play around with the text fields. Apparently none of the fields matter except for the "Record Number" field. So basically, I can enter any information for doc type, name, surname, date of record, and total amount, the system will calculate the discount. And you pay with your credit card. Now more importantly, I still can't get the link to the above site from dgt dot es. Someone on this thread had posted earlier that the site changed from spanish to english at a certain point. However, I still don't know where to click to get to the payment page. So now, I don't know what to make of it. I am not worried about spanish authorities knocking on my door, or the fact tht i might be arrested in my next visit to spain etc. On playing around with their payment page, I realised that their system is not that advance in tracking. I just think tht the spanish authorities are not quite honest in these matters. Just a way to raise funds to service their debts. While the payment page might be legit (which I highly doubt now), the fact that I didnt receive any photograph makes me more suspicious. Also, I must add that my GPS system (and the software was updated just a month back) gives me warnings whenever speed cameras are around. And at that time I ensured that I go below 100 (even if speed limit was 120/130, so no question of temporary speed limits of 100 for a brief stretch). And I have driven in several european countries but never been fined. And I don't plan to speak with the car rental company (National, Alamo) as I don't think they will provide me with any reasonable info. Even if they did give my details to Spanish Authorities, I dont understand why the payment page does not care about other details, and just the record number. P.S. Could not paste the exact links in my post as this forum only allows links to be posted when post count is greater than 10
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