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Nov 3, 2015
These people are scam artists. They call and pretend they are with a local govt, university, high school etc. Then they try to sell you an ad in a program for a football game. When they called me a few years ago I immediately was suspicious and called the local coach that they claimed to be working with. They lied. The coach said they were not participating whatsoever with this company.
My boss stupidly bought an ad. I thought it was fraud so I called around and we cancelled it before losing any money. I saved the information in a file called Potential Fraud. It came in handy because they called again this week. They once again claimed they were with the entity with whom we work. I am sure they are not. Do not entertain these people. Look them up on the ripoff report. You will see what their game is.
As previous poster said they lie about who they are with. This is an attempt to get past gate keepers and talk to principals/owners. As I said above they got to talk to my boss and he as gullible. I shut them down when I found out about it though. When my boss agreed to the ad I got a letter from them "confirming the order" well it did not have a copy of the ad or anything, again I was suspicious. I looked in my fraud file today and though the return address on the envelope is from a UPS store in Baton Rouge (thanks google) today I noticed the postage meter includes a zip code. The zip code on the postage meter is from New York City. These guys are so shady.
My family is in publishing. Keep in mind that if you are buying an ad they should be able to give you lots of information about the publication. Like samples of past publications. Samples of the ad etc. Circulation etc. Calling up and implying that you work for someone's customer and then asking for money for an ad is misleading if not fraudulent.
My boss stupidly bought an ad. I thought it was fraud so I called around and we cancelled it before losing any money. I saved the information in a file called Potential Fraud. It came in handy because they called again this week. They once again claimed they were with the entity with whom we work. I am sure they are not. Do not entertain these people. Look them up on the ripoff report. You will see what their game is.
As previous poster said they lie about who they are with. This is an attempt to get past gate keepers and talk to principals/owners. As I said above they got to talk to my boss and he as gullible. I shut them down when I found out about it though. When my boss agreed to the ad I got a letter from them "confirming the order" well it did not have a copy of the ad or anything, again I was suspicious. I looked in my fraud file today and though the return address on the envelope is from a UPS store in Baton Rouge (thanks google) today I noticed the postage meter includes a zip code. The zip code on the postage meter is from New York City. These guys are so shady.
My family is in publishing. Keep in mind that if you are buying an ad they should be able to give you lots of information about the publication. Like samples of past publications. Samples of the ad etc. Circulation etc. Calling up and implying that you work for someone's customer and then asking for money for an ad is misleading if not fraudulent.