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Nov 24, 2014
Scammers using UPS stores as cover for their operations: A couple of years ago, I was receiving spam e-mails that gave an actual, on the ground, address. Using the White Pages and Google Maps, I tracked the address to a UPS store in Florida. The address of the company included what appeared to be a box number. It turned out that the box number was a space on a shelf in the store.
I reported the whole business to 800notes and the FCC right off. Then, to test the address, I sent a registered letter (as requested) by the company through UPS to demand that my contact information be removed from their records. The letter was returned "no such address". I was out $10.00, but I never heard from the scumbags again.
NOTE: There are numerous such cover operations. They have an office, a phone, an e-mail connection, and a space on a shelf at a UPS store -- in what I suspect are some of the seedier parts of towns like Miami or Ft. Lauderdale. When I checked back later on the company, all the original company information was gone. I suspect that they had morphed into another identity. I now mark as "spam" any odd advertising e-mails that show up on my e-mail accounts. This seems to cut down on the incidence of such e-mails, thank goodness.
I reported the whole business to 800notes and the FCC right off. Then, to test the address, I sent a registered letter (as requested) by the company through UPS to demand that my contact information be removed from their records. The letter was returned "no such address". I was out $10.00, but I never heard from the scumbags again.
NOTE: There are numerous such cover operations. They have an office, a phone, an e-mail connection, and a space on a shelf at a UPS store -- in what I suspect are some of the seedier parts of towns like Miami or Ft. Lauderdale. When I checked back later on the company, all the original company information was gone. I suspect that they had morphed into another identity. I now mark as "spam" any odd advertising e-mails that show up on my e-mail accounts. This seems to cut down on the incidence of such e-mails, thank goodness.