Danvers residents have been receiving fake notices in the mail, report town officials.
If you see this notice in the mail, be aware that it's a scam, say town officials. "We’ve been made aware by residents that people have been receiving the attached notice, asking people to send in $83 to take care of an alleged deed issue involving their property," said Town Manager Wayne Marquis in a recent notice sent to local media outets. "We’re trying to get the word out that this is a scam and people should not respond and definitely should not send money," he said. Danvers police also issued a notice, alerting residents to the scam. They said the town is in no way affiliated with "Property Transfer Services" out of Delaware. The letter recommends that homeowners obtain a copy of their current deed and is designed to appear as a bill…
A worker at Daily Harvest Cafe stepped up when she thought she was getting scammed by a customer, chasing him down while allegedly getting assaulted.
When a customer at Daily Harvest Cafe kept switching out bills, one employee knew something wasn't right. The customers was allegedly trying to pull a "fast one" where he would get the employee to take bigger bills out of register. Eventually, George Lott, 68, of 39 Boylston St. in Boston was arrested and charged with larceny from a person, assault and battery, resisting arrest and disorderly conduct. It all started at about 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday when the unnamed employee confronted Lott about his attempted scam. Lott kept changing bills and took back money that was not his, police said. After being confronted, Lott fled the High Street restaurant. The employee chased him out of the restaurant and up High Street, toward Walgreens and …
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Robert Gates
6:31 am on Monday, February 18, 2013
Not that we want to teach it to anyone, but there are several places online that show it....an age-old scam that predates ID theft and the other modern scams. more ›