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Originally Posted by OhioBuckeye
JNIEMAN, not picking on you, but I thought everybody knew that these flyers were something to get you in their showroom so some slick salesman could give you some BS sales pitch. Also just look at the return address, it probably say BULK MAIL, that means everybody is getting it too. I get them from a Ford Dealership too, saying their in short demand of certain yr. auto which just happens to be what I've got. The flyer says that they'll give me $17,000. trade in for my 5 yr. old car which has over 100,000 mi. on it. I can gaurantee you I might get 3 to $5,000. trade in but once they get you there it's high pressure time. JNIEMAN, throw all of your flyers into file 13 right there in that big round white file. Remember if they want to give you something & you think it's to good to be true, believe me, IT IS!  |
This particular one was not from a car dealer offering a huge amount for my trade in.
If you click the link and read it you can see that. It was a sweepstakes saying that you may have won an automobile. It also had a little mini lightbox attached and if you pull the tab it lights up with a series of numbers flashing in red. Then if that number matches the winning number posted (which it will) then you have won.
Yes I normally throw them away and have never fallen for a scam either in the mail or on my computer. I knew it was a scam after reading it and looking up the company on line, but wanted to warn my fellow seniors.
Some seniors are not as alert to this type of thing and I put out the warning because I wanted to help them. I could see it was bulk mail and knew that other Villages seniors received this also. Some people especially those who grew up before all of this deception began cannot always spot a fraud like this. A friend of mine's mother fell for something similar to this and they cleaned out her bank account.
So many times I have read in the news of a senior being a victim to a mail or email scam. Just alerting my fellow citizen.