- Feb 16, 2003
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For the past few weeks, we've been getting a lot of packages, and so the Fedex and UPS guys know me. I see them arrive and usually come outside to meet them half way. Anyway, they've learned my name and so we're all on a first name basis. For a while, I thought that this was great, and that they're being nice, which Fedex is. However yesterday, the UPS person asked me if I'm ever looking for a business opportunity outside of what I do.
At this point, sirens are going off in my head, but I figured he might just be getting a referral fee from UPS by recruiting drivers or something and so I responded telling him that I'm not looking for anything right now, but I'm open to listen to any thoughts he had. After I said that, the reaction and wording I got seemed like something he had practiced a million times and is ready to shoot himself if he had to repeat it again.
He told me that there is a new company in town that helps local businesses transform into an online retailer. He's telling me that mom and pop shops can use this service to go online and then close down their retail shop. Putting aside all the issues with that and the reasons why a mom and pop shop is all about being local with personalized attention and everything, I couldn't help but feel sorry for him. He's going on and on about how this will utilize the Amazon affiliate/referral tools, and that if I want to be a part of this, we can setup a time to meet.
He hands me a business card that has a picture of $100 bills on it and then forgets to hand me one of the packages that was in his hand. I guess he didn't practice the part where he hands the packages.
More info: This scam is a local thing that I've heard about twice in the past week. I met a kid at a meeting for local investors and entrepreneurs that was interested in talking to me, turned out he wanted to get me in on this too. The other incident was a friend who was contacted by someone he had an elementary school class with that was recruiting him for the same thing.
This is just a stupid pyramid scam that requires people to pay money to get involved and I'm a little disappointed that the UPS guy would do this. I would report him, but he handles all the packages that I get delivered, can't piss him off
Question: Is there a kind way of telling him that he's in a scam? I'm not sure if he realizes that this is a pyramid scam or not... I guess the simplest solution is to ask him if he knows this is a scam or not, is that too harsh? I think it's best I do it before he gets reported by someone else for it.
At this point, sirens are going off in my head, but I figured he might just be getting a referral fee from UPS by recruiting drivers or something and so I responded telling him that I'm not looking for anything right now, but I'm open to listen to any thoughts he had. After I said that, the reaction and wording I got seemed like something he had practiced a million times and is ready to shoot himself if he had to repeat it again.
He told me that there is a new company in town that helps local businesses transform into an online retailer. He's telling me that mom and pop shops can use this service to go online and then close down their retail shop. Putting aside all the issues with that and the reasons why a mom and pop shop is all about being local with personalized attention and everything, I couldn't help but feel sorry for him. He's going on and on about how this will utilize the Amazon affiliate/referral tools, and that if I want to be a part of this, we can setup a time to meet.
He hands me a business card that has a picture of $100 bills on it and then forgets to hand me one of the packages that was in his hand. I guess he didn't practice the part where he hands the packages.
More info: This scam is a local thing that I've heard about twice in the past week. I met a kid at a meeting for local investors and entrepreneurs that was interested in talking to me, turned out he wanted to get me in on this too. The other incident was a friend who was contacted by someone he had an elementary school class with that was recruiting him for the same thing.
This is just a stupid pyramid scam that requires people to pay money to get involved and I'm a little disappointed that the UPS guy would do this. I would report him, but he handles all the packages that I get delivered, can't piss him off
Question: Is there a kind way of telling him that he's in a scam? I'm not sure if he realizes that this is a pyramid scam or not... I guess the simplest solution is to ask him if he knows this is a scam or not, is that too harsh? I think it's best I do it before he gets reported by someone else for it.
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