Roving salespeople
It’s that time of the year again, where a young adult (or maybe an old teenager) in an ill-fitting suit is sent to my area to knock on doors, and try to sell magazine subscriptions so that he (or she) can “better himself” (or herself). I do admit that I am a rather crochetty grouch, and inclined to look suspiciously at everything, so I will be up front. This may be a scam, AND it may not.
But after reading the stories on the Traveling Sales Crew Information Website I have to say that I would never buy a magazine subscription from a door-to-door salesperson even if they were legitimate. There’s just too high a probability that they’re not.
About eight years back I had a friend who joined one of those magazine selling crews and the whole thing was a scam. At first he didn’t know, he thought he was selling legitimate subscriptions. When he decided he was done he asked to get a bus ticket home. They gave him some phoney numbers telling him it was a confirmation on a greyhound. When he got to the terminal they sales people didn’t know what the the hell he was talking about. I had to wire him 100 bucks to get back to cali from idaho - poor idiot. Even more so for the people who fell for it.