Like P.T., we too have received details of an alleged traffic offence; in our case via Hertz who promptly charged my credit card 18 Euros for providing my name and address to the Italian authorities. I placed this into dispute with the card provider who immediately deleted it from my account because I had not separately authorised it. I was interested to hear that you believe many of these fines to be fake. Ours was received some four months after our holiday. We had it translated by an Italian friend who said it quoted a fine similar to a PCN in the UK, but we have received nothing to date demanding the money some seven weeks after Hertz informed us.