as the rain pounds the roof
Sep. 26th, 2008 10:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lizziebellePretty slow in here for a Friday morning. I'm sure it's the rain. This is definitely one of those mornings when I'd much rather be in bed.
I had a strange interaction with a customer: I got an email yesterday that had been sent to our general "contact us" address from the website, from someone wanting to place a help wanted ad. It was one of those "work from home" type deals, which I loathe because I'm certain that more often than not, they're a scam. I emailed back the details and asked for their info and payment. I got an email back with a Ware, MA address, and a credit card number, but no phone. I emailed back asking for a phone number, and this morning I got a call from one of those relay services usually used by the hearing-impaired. The relay person was kind of snippy and condescending to me, which didn't help, but the customer gave me a phone number that wasn't valid (too many digits) so I asked for a MA number, since the address they gave me was in MA. They then gave me a MA number, but a new address. Ding ding ding! That's a classic sign of fraud. I said that I'm sorry, but I cannot accept this ad because it has too many signs of fraud, and the relay person tells me that they had disconnected. I said that confirms my suspicion, thank you very much! Sheesh. I'll bet it was a stolen credit card; that's usually the case in things like this.
I find it interesting, to go off on a tangent here, that a few of the network ads we get say to not run certain ads in certain states ("do not run in MD, SD," etc.), and I wonder of those states have more aware Attorneys General or something. They certainly make me suspicious. We get mostly the same ads every week, though, so there must be an awful lot of suckers out there. I just want to say that I highly doubt you can make $5K a week stuffing envelopes/ making angel pins/ CD cases/ etc...
I had a strange interaction with a customer: I got an email yesterday that had been sent to our general "contact us" address from the website, from someone wanting to place a help wanted ad. It was one of those "work from home" type deals, which I loathe because I'm certain that more often than not, they're a scam. I emailed back the details and asked for their info and payment. I got an email back with a Ware, MA address, and a credit card number, but no phone. I emailed back asking for a phone number, and this morning I got a call from one of those relay services usually used by the hearing-impaired. The relay person was kind of snippy and condescending to me, which didn't help, but the customer gave me a phone number that wasn't valid (too many digits) so I asked for a MA number, since the address they gave me was in MA. They then gave me a MA number, but a new address. Ding ding ding! That's a classic sign of fraud. I said that I'm sorry, but I cannot accept this ad because it has too many signs of fraud, and the relay person tells me that they had disconnected. I said that confirms my suspicion, thank you very much! Sheesh. I'll bet it was a stolen credit card; that's usually the case in things like this.
I find it interesting, to go off on a tangent here, that a few of the network ads we get say to not run certain ads in certain states ("do not run in MD, SD," etc.), and I wonder of those states have more aware Attorneys General or something. They certainly make me suspicious. We get mostly the same ads every week, though, so there must be an awful lot of suckers out there. I just want to say that I highly doubt you can make $5K a week stuffing envelopes/ making angel pins/ CD cases/ etc...
