Imagine seeing an online ad for what looks like a carbon copy of your licence plate.
Omar Ahmad didn’t have to imagine it.
Last month, Ahmad’s brother sent him a link to a Facebook Marketplace listing for “any Canadian province plates for all your needs” for $26, alongside an image of what looked like an Ontario licence plate “3MAR.”
That’s the personalized Ontario plate Ahmad has had for 11 years. His wife gave it to him as a gift back in high school for a car he’d built as a showpiece for his family’s auto body shop in Hamilton, Ont.
“It literally looked like if
