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Sheriff’s office warns residents of credit card scam

(The Washtenaw County Sheriff’s Office sent this warning to residents. Please take note of this credit card scam.)

A phone call from someone who says that he is from some outfit called: “Express Couriers” asking if someone was going to be home because there is a package, and the caller says that the delivery would arrive at your home in roughly an hour.

And sure enough, about an hour later, a delivery man turns up with a beautiful basket of flowers and wine. What a surprise for you (especially if there is no special occasion or holiday), and no-one certainly expects anything like that.

Intrigued you ask who the sender is. The deliveryman’s reply was, he is only delivering the gift package, but allegedly a card is being sent separately; (the card never arrives). There is also an official looking ‘consignment’ note with the gift.

He now goes on to explain that because the gift contains alcohol, there is a $3.50 ‘delivery charge’ as proof that he had actually delivered the package to an adult, and not just left it on the doorstep to just be stolen or taken by anyone. Sounds logical doesn’t it?

You offer to pay cash but he tells you that the company requires the payment to be by credit or debit card only, so that no ‘cash’ is exchanged and everything is properly accounted for. You take out your (or your husbands) credit/debit card and the “delivery man” asks you to swipe the card on the small mobile card machine which has a small screen and keypad where you now enter the card’s PIN and security number. A receipt is printed out and given to you.

Next week you will find that money has been charged/withdrawn from your credit/debit account at various ATM machines all over the country. It appears that the “mobile credit card machine” which the deliveryman carried now has all the info necessary to create a “dummy” card with all your card details, after you have swiped the card and entered the requested PIN and security number.

Please be aware of this most recent scam and share this information with your family, friends, and neighbors. Any suspect description or suspect vehicle information should be reported to your local police agency.

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