WASHINGTON - No one likes getting a speeding or parking ticket in the mail, but it's especially frustrating when it's from a place you never visited.

At a time of year when folks are receiving holiday greeting cards in the mail, Front Royal, Virginia resident Faye Graham, who is battling bone cancer, keeps getting speeding tickets and past due notices from DC.

"I'm traveling back in forth to Charlottesville to the doctors and I can't afford to lose my licence," said Graham.

Graham continued, "I've lost my job, due to the cancer and everything. And I've been having to fight that and now have to fight something that don't even belong to me."

Graham claims the car in the citations, a Toyota Corrolla, isn't hers. The information doesn't even match the vehicle. It describes her old Honda Civic, which was actually scrapped by her boyfriend three years ago.

"I think they need to do something about their cameras. How many people going through the same thing?," asked boyfriend Kenneth Newman.

The frustrated couple believes the police department is mistaking the "M" on this mystery tag with a "W". If you swap those two letters, you do get her old tags that expired in 2007.

Graham said, "I've been to the DMV, the lady there says, 'if you put an M in place of the W and they would see it goes back to that Toyota.'"

After sending proof that the tags expired and the car was scrapped, D.C. police sent Graham a letter stating that it was insufficient evidence and she was still liable. Graham says she's never even driven the 60 miles to the District.

Graham said, "I wouldn't begin to travel through that, not with all that traffic."

The police department is standing firm about issuing the ticket and says there is no mix up of letters on the tag. When we asked a police spokesperson about the difference in cars she said she wasn't sure, and suggested Graham file an appeal.

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