Monday afternoon two boys, late teens approached my house requesting about purchasing magazine subscriptions as a fundrasier for their trip to "Germany". They were a home schooled group of kids in a contest, boys against girls.
They were very convincing, had what I thought were authentic documents and stated the subscriptions were for the Veterans and soldiers. That I needed to make sure that I considered both, the men and the women so if I could do one for each it would be great. I would be getting a picture postcard in the mail from a soldier that received my magazine. They caught me off guard, and without stopping to look them up real quick on line, I went ahead and did two subscription and wrote them two checks.
After an hour or so, I got a funny feeling and decided to look them up on line. Sure enough - Numerous reports of this scam across the US are out there. I called the bank this am and put stops on the checks and reported them stolen. So much for trying to be a trusting soul...
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