August 9
I received a notice from United Magazine Service Inc informing me that I had an outstanding bill and that it needed to be paid immediately to Galaxy Credit of Peoria, AZ. I immediately suspected that this was a scam because I have not done any business with United Magazine Service in the past and I pay for magazine subscriptions several years in advance. For clarification, however, I called the Galaxy Credit number and spoke with a representative who restated the amount that I owed and informed me that the only way I could pay was by providing them with a check or (as he suggested was more convenient) by giving them my checking account number over the phone, which, he stated would allow them to simply print a check and mail it to United Magazine Service. How simple and convenient, right!
Fortunately, I did not provide them with any information and promptly terminated the phone call. This is certainly a dangerous scam that needs to be investigated before someone tricked into giving these people sensitive information.
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