Looks like I may have been scammed too. A young girl came to my door Jan. 8 with a very good spiel about being able to take a trip to Cancun and being among 200 students who just graduated high school in this "contest." I am not a person to fall for these door to door scandels, for one there is no soliciting aloud in the apartment complex I live in.
However, I merely felt sorry for the girl and wanted to help. I was a little disturbed by some of the things she said to me and I did ask some questions. She told me that she was from Tennesee and was one of 2 teenagers who get "picked" from each state to do what she was doing. She said she had family in TN that she really missed and couldn't wait to get home and that she would be taking 3 of her family members on this trip to Cancun. (yeah right)
That disturbed me being a mother; this is what pissed me off - she told me that if I didn't have a check or enough cash she got "extra" points if I took her to the ATM with me to get cash. I was furious that any "supervisor" would allow that none the less encourage it. She told me she had gone with a young man on a motorcycle not too long ago to the ATM so he could get cash and another man in a car.
I asked her why she would do that and wasn't she afraid to do something like that? She told me that she would not go with any "older" men but younger men and any age woman she was comfortable with getting in a car with. (Wonder if her mother knows this?) She said that she had good instincts and doesn't go anywhere with anyone she's not comfortable with. Weren't we all like that as teenagers? I mean really I know I had no fear but that is beyond!
I will be calling and sending in for my money and cancellation. Hopefully, I'll get it back, if not there's always the newstations:) But, more importantly I'm praying this poor girl has a safe return to her family!
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