A sweet young girl comes to the door explaining to me she is working to find a career and while she does this I can help her earn points to win a trip to Europe... She picked Italy. She goes through this whole speech, flashes an ID, shows me a blue pamphlet showing all these magazinzes I can order from. Now, here I am a teacher... I teach the older ones... And I actually leave my kids inside and sit on my porch with her talking... Because I know it must be hard to go door to door and I am saying to myself "the kid is trying to make a buck and win a trip"... And being an educator and mom... I fall for it all... Trying to give our youth a fighting chance in this sick society.
I knew something was wrong when I she asked for my phone and called in her supposed "ID" number and I spoke to a guy when she said only women work in the office. I gave my bank card. I knew somehting was up when I directed her in a direction and she said she did not know where she came from of if she would be here tomorrow. Right after she left, I got on the phone with my bank... Cancelled my card... Went to the bank and saw a $1 charge was pending for the $63 I signed off on. I have to wait for the charge to go through... Then fill out a form from my bank to get my money back.
When I think back to our converstaion... She was not such a good saleswoman... Just a sweet face and "sweet talk" because I caught so many things that were fishy after the fact. Especailly her name on the receipt "Shania Cato" from Illinois... And the name of the guy Steve I gave my card to... With his distributor number as Marco.
So, it was the first time I was scammed... And I am a New Yorker... Born and raised! We are know to just "keep walking" Guess the move to my beach town at the shore softened me! I was totally taken... And such an idiot as I said before was not good at the sales pitch and I still fell for it.
Well, never again... Even with kids coming to the door. These people should really burn in hell!!
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