Junk Mail Scams

Ross Howard from the Better Business Bureau shows me a check that a consumer recently brought in. It’s for about $1,900 and looks real to me. Then he rips it in half. The paper makes almost a screechy sound as it rips apart. Howard relates that to the sound some people make when he rips up checks in front of them. “A lot of people just don’t want to believe these are fake, but I’m doing them a favor when I rip them up.“

Howard says there’s more and more junk mail and more of it contains more and more scams.  Case in point: one man recently brought in two weeks worth of his mail for Howard to examine.  There were 36 letters.“And every bit of it is either a sweepstakes, a voucher, a fake check or some other kind of scam,“ Howard tells me.

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