Posted on 11/25/2014 6:43:48 AM PST by sodpoodle
Another reason I’m glad I don’t drink. You won’t catch me paying a delivery fee for a bottle of wine.
This is true:
http://www.snopes.com/fraud/sales/express.asp
As soon as he said there was a charge for delivery on a “gift” I didn’t request, I would have declined.
I received a card in the mail yesterday saying that DMC Services had tried to deliver a package and left a number for me to call to arrange a delivery time.
Since I hadn’t ordered anything and wasn’t expecting any packages I Googled the company name and phone number.
I found a post by someone saying it was a scam. The package is a bottle of laundry detergent and if you allow the delivery they will show up to offer a “free” water quality test.
Needless to say, the notice went in the trash.
You are aware that snopes claims this scam has been around since 2008?
http://www.snopes.com/fraud/sales/express.asp
The email is almost verbatim from the description on snopes. Any time you get one of these ‘warning’ emails, check with snopes.
You can add money at places like WalMart and 7-11. They are very handy cards to carry for limited budgets or to pass on to a teenager or spouse whom you wouldn't trust with a normal credit card.
"My wife has our cards with her, but she's only a minute or two away. let me call her." Then call police.
just last week my 78 yr old mother got a call from someone claiming to be my son - say he was in jail and needed money wired to him....Mom was hip to it and started pressing for details - and soon the call was cut short
You have to question everything these days. The one time you let your guard down you may become a victim.
I must be more fortunate, than some, I guess.
All my ‘phone business’ is in the same area code, so anything outside, is suspect.
I have a very hungry ‘spam folder’ in my email supplier, to where i have to ‘rescue’ one or two, from senders of desired information.
i have not used, nor needed a credit card, since 1986, nor any other method of legalized usury, either.
Let’s see, the rule is never give your card to anyone asking for it, only give it to those you are asking for a transaction. Violated rule #1. Got suckered as expected.
Rule #2, if a transaction is unique and you have never seen such a transaction before, such as alcohol deliveries and a transaction request to be paid by the recipient (I’ve never heard of such a thing), then you are being suckered.
That’s the “Grandparent Scam”. It actually works on many elderly.
Beware anything that doesn’t accept cash.
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