Well, I guess I was almost scammed. I live in a gated apartment community in Wichita Kansas and was visited by this short, high school looking girl who was very vibrant and bubbly. She went through her shpeel about the magazines and her wanting to win a trip to Cancun. I felt bad for her, especially since she said she was travelling all the way from Vermont to get these points. She even told me that the black eye she had came from one of the other girls that she was beating out in points. I thought that I could simply renew my subscription and then get a new publication for my niece for Christmas.
I wrote her a check for a whopping $57 and was told that I would receive the publications in 4-6 weeks.
When she left, I had a bad feeling about what I had just done. Luckily my boyfriend is in law enforcement and asked me if I wanted him to go get my check back. I said yes and he ran to the next apartment complex where she was still selling. I didn't think our apartment complex let people solicit so I called the office and as my boyfriend was getting my check back the lady escorted her off the property. I am still weary as to whether she wrote down my account numbers but the time lapse hopefully didn't allow for her to do that. I then proceeded to google this Palmetto Marketing Inc. This morning and read many reports from people who were scammed out of their money and never received their magazines.
Do not let these people in whatever they say, whatever they do. I even read that someone posing as a salesperson for the company killed some lady. They are manipulative and luckily I got my check back but do not let them get away with this, call your apartment complex and get these people off the property. Let the local law enforcement know if you were not able to get your check cancelled or back. They will not send you anything from all of the reports that I have read. Thank goodness for my boyfriend or I would have been one of the unlucky victims!
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