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Below please read the information that came from one of our members. Apparently this has appeared on local TV.
Sinerecly,
Don Quashnie
President NW Wayne MARSP
(Michigan assoc. retired school personnel)
Just when you think you've heard it all. Here comes another scam.
This scam is very clever. Be very careful out there! One could easily fall
for this - beware of people bearing gifts
Please circulate this. Someone it happened to says it works like
this: Wednesday a week ago, I had a phone call from someone who said that he
was from some outfit called: "Express Couriers" asking if I was going to be
home because there was a package for me, and the caller said that the
delivery would arrive at my home in roughly an hour. And sure enough, about
an hour later, a uniformed delivery man turned up with a beautiful basket of
flowers and wine. I was very surprised since it did not ! involve any
special occasion or holiday, and I certainly didn't expect anything like it.
Intrigued about who would send me such a gift, I inquired as to who the
sender is. The deliveryman's reply was, he was only delivering the gift
package, but allegedly a card was being sent separately; (the card has never
arrived!). There was also a consignment note with the gift. He then went on
to explain that because the gift contained alcohol, there was a $3.50
"delivery charge" as proof that he had actually delivered the package to an
adult, and not just left it on the doorstep where it could be stolen or
taken by anyone. This sounded logical and I offered to pay him cash. He then
said that the company required the payment to be by credit or debit card
only so that everything is properly accounted for. My husband, who by this
time was standing beside me, pulled his wallet out of his pocket with the
credit/debit card, and 'John', the "delivery man", asked my husband to
swipe the card on the small mobile card machine which had a small screen and
keypad where Frank was also asked to enter the card's PIN and security
number. A receipt was printed out and given to us. To our horrible surprise,
between Thursday and the following Monday, $4,000 had been charged/withdrawn
from our credit/debit account at various ATM machines. It appeared that
somehow the "mobile credit card machine" which the deliveryman carried now
had all the info necessary to create a "dummy" card with all our card
details after my husband swiped our card and entered the requested PIN and
security number. Upon finding out about the illegal transactions on our
card, we immediately notified the bank which issued us the card, and our
credit/debit account was closed. We also personally went to the Police,
where it was confirmed that it is definitely a scam because several
households had been similarly hit.WARNING: Be wary of accepting any
"surprise gift or package", which you neither expected nor personally
ordered, especially if it involves any kind of payment as a condition of
receiving the gift or package. Also, never accept anything if you do not
personally know or there is no proper identification of who the sender is.
Above all, the only time you should give out any personal credit/debit card
information is when you yourself initiated the purchase or transaction!Pass
this on, it may just prevent someone else from being swindled.
See SNOPES for verification …
»www.snopes.com/fraud/sales/express.asp
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