When Daniel Wavering opened up a letter from the City of Richmond’s Finance Department in early April, he initially thought it was some sort of scam.
“The letter said something to the effect of ‘Hey, you might be getting a — or you may have received a rebate check for your property taxes addressed to somebody else,’” the Highland Park resident said. “Their instructions were to either return it or destroy it, and that they would send the correct one out.”
Wavering said he was left feeling confused, because he hadn’t received a check addressed to him or anyone else — so he threw the letter out. Later, he learned through a reddit thread he wasn’t the only Richmond resident in this situation…