Monday, September 5, 2016
Beware of latest mail scam
From CBS:
A fake pest control violation letter is circulating in the city and its asking its recipients to pay up big bucks.
On Friday, Henry Gelfand received the official looking letter claiming to be from the City of New York.
“They’re using the city logo on top, they’re using the city logo on the bottom,” Gelfand said told CBS2’s Tracee Carrasco.
Only problem? It’s not the city who sent the letter. The notice, which is printed on a fake New York City Department letter head, claims to be from the “Rodent Control Program Assessment.”
The letter demands immediate payment for an unspecified violation ranging from $120 to $280, to be mailed to “Vermin Control of New York.”
“The property address is missing, the lot number is missing, all the information that should be provided in a violation is missing,” Gelfand said. The letter reads “this violation cannot be contested or challenged.”
8 comments:
This is one of the good things about the internet. Anyone can determine pretty quickly that there is no such agency or program on an nyc.gov website.
This might be a little persnickety, but any future attempts to swindle people this way would be to get rid of that NYC logo, which looks like a lame attempt at bubble letter style graffiti. Because anyone can mistakenly pay that bill because that official logo is the first thing that you focus on. You can probably cut excess costs by saving money on ink to print that too,
"The letter reads “this violation cannot be contested or challenged.”
How long until NYC copies that?
Write a check from a closed bank account or police detective business card.
Looks like the DOI is up to their lazy ass schedule again. They must have put this one in the round file.
Just pay it, Sheeple.
"The letter reads “this violation cannot be contested or challenged.”
How long until NYC copies that?
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Ever get a traffic ticket? Its basically, "pay the fine by mail, or if you fight this ticket, the punishments will be severe"
The letter seemed too legit to be from our incompetent bumbling bafoons running NYC government,that was the hint it was a fake.
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