Don’t people think to check the personal backgrounds of those to whom they offer their personal information, account numbers, passwords and daily in-and-out schedules?
Watchers are fine, but only if you know who they are, their social and business connections, their history and their intentions.
HINT: Just because a salesman is a returned missionary doesn’t mean the firm he is collecting data for is trustworthy.
This may be the single most clever heist in the world’s history, folks.
Yes, it’s about to happen…if the conversation I overheard yesterday is real.
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Oh heavens no. The environmental scam is costing us big.
The environment and health scare scams will far exceed homeland security. I mean, there are people who actually believe there are 48 million Americans that don’t have health care because they can’t afford it. Now that’s a scam! The entire non-scientific report that the environmental scam is based upon has been debunked yet we spend more on global warming research than cancer research. That’s just sad!
I think you might be talking about scammers who knock on your door, unannounced of course, and try to sell you a home security system. Or, if you already have one, to sell you their competing system.
I am very wary of this scam. I had a young man come by my door about 6 months ago. He was a returned missionary, as chance would have it, and he had the company shirt on and the badges, etc, and said I could call his company and check him out. Well, if it was a scam, surely whoever I called would have been in on it, too.
He wanted to know all about my habits, if I armed my current alarm often, and if he could come in and go through a quick walkthrough with me to point out security system vulnerabilities…..so that he could better tailor a new system to meet my needs. He was very pushy and really wanted to see inside my house.
Hell NO! He may have been legit, but what if he wasn’t…and his VERY POOR salesmanship was a big red flag to me. I wasn’t about to let some person case my home from the inside only to come back later when I’m not around to rob me…after all, he would then know where my valuables were and know the best place to gain entry to the home.
After I told him to go away, he left some paperwork for me to “consider” and assured me he’d be back in 2 days (and he seemed shocked when I mentioned that what he was doing is a well-known scam to case a home)….he never returned. I assured him that if the security system didn’t deter a criminal, and if I were ever in the home when one broke in, they would be sure to die from a quickly-delivered gunshot wound (and after having been to Iraq, I assured him that I didn’t think I’d have much of a problem actually pulling the trigger).
Yes, this scam is real…if you want a security system, YOU should initiate the call and never let some random person going door to door enter your home to sell you a security system… It is the perfect, most clever heist.
Where have you been, dear? Notorious killer “BTK” worked for ADT Security Systems.
Mormon returned missionaries will often end up selling not only security systems but also anything from insurance, to cars, to real estate, to magazine subscriptions because they marry right after returning, with nothing more than a high school degree and proselytism experience…
As a former one myself (I am sad to admit) I agree with you that it is NO proof of exclusion of quacks, crackpots and criminals. Their leader Joseph was one himself, and they’ll deny the court records of the 1800s that tried him as a glass-looking quack, for telling the future with glassy rocks…