Free Trip
- People will receive a letter at home offering free plane ticket
- The plane ticket is from a "National Airline" offering 2 free plane tickets
- These tickets are worth nearly $1300
- A good salesperson pressures them into buying the tickets by calling a toll-free number
How To avoid this
- If you receive one of these, you just should not believe this is real.
- Throw away the ticket right away so you don't forget or have another family member try to use it.
Exclusive Club
- People are invited to a travel seminar, or receive a gift, or VIP card.
- Once arrived at location, marketers hold them and get salesmen to lure victims to buy shady offers.
- They will offer exclusive club deals, or VIP cards
How to Avoid
- Refunds are nearly impossible to get back.
- Don't accept any offers you get on email or a random phone call.
Want Some Pizza? Think again
- The scammer will put a pizza menu in your mailbox, hotel, or motel room.
- You call the number for the pizza and give them your credit card information and BAM! You gave your credit card to a criminal who now has access to your account.
Avoid this!!
- Delivery people have their own paying device with them
- Pay when you see the food
- If their POS system is down, just refuse to give credit card and pay with cash or just forget the pizza and eat in for the night.
Drivers License
- Aimed at newcomers, international students, or foreign workers
- Say the need international license
- They say, "We charge 80$ instead of 150$"
- They will give you fake number if you have problems receiving it.
How to avoid
- If you are newcomer, you can drive in America with your own license up to 1 year.
Credits:
Created with images by tookapic - "passport travel journey" • karinasetiawan - "vip table dining table setting" • Dana Moos - "I don't often take away much from Guy Fieri but one of his recent Diners, drive ins and Dives shows took him to a place that made a fried cheese pizza! No crust! So no carbs so I had to try it. It completely satisfied the pizza craving and the cheese cru"