How to Identify Magazine Subscription Scams
It seems that we live in the age of scams. Our email inboxes are full of false promises of a larger penis and email attachments that can crash our hard drives. Our mailboxes burst at the seems with junk mail begging for a donation to some charity we have never even heard of. And if danger isn't lurking in an inbox or mailbox, it's on the other end of a ringing telephone: It's hard to escape the telemarketing calls that pour into our households from early in the morning until late at night. One of the many scams that are going around these days is the magazine-subscription scam. Follow the steps below to identify this ruse and avoid becoming just another victim.
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Follow the general rule that if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. This means watching out for magazine-subscription deals that include the words "free," "prepaid" and "special."
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Know that if you have to ask how much it is, you can't afford it. Do not go through with a magazine-subscription purchase if the salesperson doesn't tell you how much it costs before asking you to provide some form of payment. You shouldn't have to ask what the cost is; they should tell you.
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Don't allow yourself to fall for the "free" or "prepaid" scam. If you are being offered a magazine subscription for only the cost of a processing fee, you will probably find out too late that the processing fee is more than the cost of a normal subscription to that magazine.
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Don't purchase a magazine subscription from someone who presents himself as something other than a salesman, or who isn't forthcoming with the name of the company he's working for.
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Ask those important questions. You should know how long your subscription is to last; how you will be billed and when; which magazines you will be receiving and when; the cost of each subscription and the total price; if you can cancel and how; and how the price you are supposed to pay compares to what you would pay with a normal subscription. If the salesperson doesn't want to answer these questions, she doesn't deserve your business.
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