A young man approached a friend and I (we're both women) in a shopping mall in Long Island New York. He said he was enrolled in a contest through a company called Services Unlimited Plus. He was selling cheap magazine subscriptions that he explained would aquire him "points". These "points" would win him a chance to be on MTV's Real World. It didn't really make any sense.
He went through a lot of phony chatter about how he was actually from Florida and he was visiting a buddy and did we know any good parties, and oh you have such lovely hair. He kept giving us the "high-five". We chipped in both our money and bought a subscription to a magazine that still hasn't been delivered after 3 months. At one point, I thought I didn't have enough cash on me so the guy even suggested that we just charge a gift certificate from a store to pay for the subscription. We ended up giving him cash though.
The website for this company is obviously a front. It contains no usable information and it's very vague. The reciept we got from the guy is also useless. It says a cancellation notice can be mailed in, but we didn't even get the guy's name! Looking back, we both feel stupid.
I wish I knew where the money is going to. They're a scam. Tell everyone to stay away.
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