That whole thing is a load of crap and one of the oldest hoaxes on the Internet. It's been around for almost 10 years. If you send money over the amount the State
gladly keeps the extra.
On
Snopes
Quote:
You can overpay your traffic ticket if you like, but the only result will be that you'll contribute some extra money to the general revenue fund.
According to the National Motorists' Association via TruthorFiction:
Quote:
"We have had our members, activists, and lawyers look into this. None have been able to find a place where this will work."
According to HoaxInfo (which specifically mentions California law)
Quote:
regulations for several states to see how this process works and in both cases, North Carolina and California, it states that points are assessed ON CONVICTION. I could find no evidence that any state waits for "all financial transactions to be completed".
Why would they wait for all financial transactions to be complete when law enforcement doesn't do this with other crimes. When you are convicted of being drunk and disorderly do they wait to update your records after you've spent your 10 days in jail and paid your $500.00 fine? If we are to believe this e-mail then if we constantly broke the traffic laws and never paid any of the fines at all, and if we could stay one step ahead of the sheriff we'd maintain a perfectly clean driving record.
If it's worked in the past for you, that's great for you. I've gotten speeding tickets that the officer just never turned in. I know lots of people who have paid fines only to get warrants for not paying them. Things slip through the cracks. Just because there's no record doesn't mean it's because you overpaid. 
