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<blockquote data-quote="barnyard" data-source="post: 2821661" data-attributes="member: 13921">A lot of people fell for scams during the downturn. A couple of guys were recognized in my center for helping oldsters avoid scams. The city were I worked, a deaf woman was laid off from her job and got &#039;another job&#039; by printing checks and writing out NDA ASDs for a guy in Florida. She was told not to take the envelopes to a customer counter, only letter boxes. 1 Monday, I picked up close to 1000 and a week later another thousand. Another driver delivered her supplies and wondered about it and had our ORS look into it. Found out it was a scam and would not deliver supplies. She was incensed and somehow got more cases of envelopes.The last time I picked up a gross of envelopes that she had done, I went to the local PD. They visited her with someone from the prosecutor&#039;s office. They concluded that she was being scammed, as she had to buy a computer, printer and pay a fee for the initial &#039;set up.&#039; She was out over $1500 and broke down several times while they were talking to her.They ended up finding out that her contact was in Florida and turned all the info over to a prosecutor in Florida. Not sure if anything happened beyond that.Those Mondays that I picked up all the envelopes, I was 4-6 hours under allowed.For those that don&#039;t know.... The scam was an NDA was sent out with a check. The address from the ASD never matched the address on the check (in this case, the checks were printed on colored paper and hand cut). The sender emailed a list of all the tracking numbers to a guy in Florida. He would track and start calling when they showed that they were delivered. The checks were for over $5k and when contacted the receiver was told they could keep a portion if they would deposit it and mail back a portion. Since that scam, I see way fewer hand written ASDs and most of them are easy to tell why they used that vs a computer generated label.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="barnyard, post: 2821661, member: 13921"] A lot of people fell for scams during the downturn. A couple of guys were recognized in my center for helping oldsters avoid scams. The city were I worked, a deaf woman was laid off from her job and got 'another job' by printing checks and writing out NDA ASDs for a guy in Florida. She was told not to take the envelopes to a customer counter, only letter boxes. 1 Monday, I picked up close to 1000 and a week later another thousand. Another driver delivered her supplies and wondered about it and had our ORS look into it. Found out it was a scam and would not deliver supplies. She was incensed and somehow got more cases of envelopes. The last time I picked up a gross of envelopes that she had done, I went to the local PD. They visited her with someone from the prosecutor's office. They concluded that she was being scammed, as she had to buy a computer, printer and pay a fee for the initial 'set up.' She was out over $1500 and broke down several times while they were talking to her. They ended up finding out that her contact was in Florida and turned all the info over to a prosecutor in Florida. Not sure if anything happened beyond that. Those Mondays that I picked up all the envelopes, I was 4-6 hours under allowed. For those that don't know.... The scam was an NDA was sent out with a check. The address from the ASD never matched the address on the check (in this case, the checks were printed on colored paper and hand cut). The sender emailed a list of all the tracking numbers to a guy in Florida. He would track and start calling when they showed that they were delivered. The checks were for over $5k and when contacted the receiver was told they could keep a portion if they would deposit it and mail back a portion. Since that scam, I see way fewer hand written ASDs and most of them are easy to tell why they used that vs a computer generated label. [/QUOTE]

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