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RIBBON CUTTING
Sassafras Designs Ribbon Cutting –
Family, friends, staff, Town officials, and Chamber
members, joined owner Donna Birdsong for the
Ribbon Cutting on March 21 celebrating her new
larger location at 6280 Chester, Suite 103 (next door
to her previous shop), Arlington.
Scam-Proof Your Life
By David B. Peel
It is rare for someone
to try to scam a law-
yer. After all, as a
group, we tend to be
pretty cynical and ana-
lytical.
That doesn't make for
good scam victims. However, love or
greed can often blind an otherwise cir-
cumspect person.
For the last several years, I have heard
about a scam preying on law firms specif-
ically that's been going around.
Here's the basic scenario: a man calls
in, clearly not very well educated, and
claiming to have suffered some terrible
injury at the hands of a large company
like Federal Express or UPS. He claims to
be paraplegic and that his landlord is pres-
suring him to take what settlement is be-
ing offered one million dollars in order to
prevent being evicted. And he says if he
could just get $450 wired to him through
a Walgreens gift card or something then
you could have the case.
The fact that this game has been going
on for about three years in multiple differ-
ent states indicates that it must be suc-
cessful at least some of the time.
But if you want to make yourself scam
proof, just follow the simple three-step
formula to scam proofing your life:
1.
2.
3.
4.
If it sounds too good to be true, it is.
Hang up. You can never get some-
thing for nothing.
If you must make a decision in a
hurry, hang up. Your worst decisions
in your life are always made in haste.
If you must send money to someone
or provide your private information,
hang up.
If people follow these three simple
rules, they will never fall for the Nigerian
prince scam and they will not get in-
volved in a shady deal.
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April 2017