A scheduled trip to renew your driver's license in South Florida is so highly sought after that you would think Taylor Swift was performing live. The Miami-Dade County Tax Collector's Office announced on Monday that it had uncovered a network of scalpers who hoarded free DMV appointments and resold them for up to $250. While the office is taking steps to stop the practice, going to the DMV has become such a torturous experience that drivers were willing to shell out big bucks to avoid it in the first place. Scalpers amassed appointments using bots and fake accounts to exploit an online system. The Tax Collector's Office spotted 200 suspicious appointments in the first three weeks after opening a new downtown Miami location for driver's license services. The agency has its sights set on individuals who are part of local driving schools as suspects in strangling the DMV's system. Miami-Dade's county commissioner introduced legislation to make selling DMV appointments illegal, with a potential fine of $500.
