We ask that you fill it out and return it. If you received such a letter it is from law enforcement. This letter included a victim questionnaire and a pre-paid return envelope. As a part of our victim outreach, law enforcement sent letters to all identified victims in the case, providing the same sort of information we are providing here and elsewhere online. Is that letter legitimate? Should I fill it out? I received a letter in the mail from the FBI/Postal Inspection Service with a return envelope asking me questions about the case. In reality, they were simply stealing the money from the victims. They were not calling from a cancellation department and were not cancelling any existing subscriptions or paying off any money owed. Some defendants would call victim-consumers, including “mega victims,” claiming they were calling from the “cancellation department.” The defendants would offer to cancel the magazines the victims were receiving and pay off money the victims “owed” in exchanged for a large payment, often of $199 or $507. Other so-called “mega victims” were scammed out of $50,000 or more. Some victims were scammed out of hundreds or thousands of dollars. This resulted in many victims being billed by several-even dozens-of magazine companies every month. Instead, the defendants were tricking the victims into signing up for entirely new magazine subscriptions, which they did not want and often could not afford. In reality, they were not calling from the victim-consumers’ magazine companies, and they were not calling to reduce the cost of an existing subscription. The defendants carried out their telemarketing fraud scheme by calling victim-consumers who had one or more existing magazine subscriptions and offering to reduce the cost of an existing magazine subscription. The victims of this scheme were located in all 50 states. The companies who perpetrated this scheme were located in Minnesota as well as in states across the country, and were also located in Canada and The Philippines. The scam has been going on for at least twenty years, and it has victimized well more than 100,000 people.
Yelp ads scam sent to collections series#
The “magazine case” is a series of federal cases brought in the District of Minnesota, which charge more than 60 defendants with a telemarketing scam that swindled seniors and other vulnerable victims out of more than $300 million.
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