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share the latest special. This is a wake-
up call for commodity sellers.
Jeff Solomon, MAS
Owner
FreePromoTips
Santa Clarita, California
UPIC: F537474
Closing The Door To Scammers
PPB ’s May issue Management column
asked “Are You The Next Victim? By PPB
Editor Tina Berres Filipski. The column
examined scams that industry professionals
may come across and gave tips on how to
spot them and how to readers can protect
themselves.
This article reads as if it were writ-
ten based on my exact experience last
September. In my situation, I contacted
my Secretary of State’s office here in
Georgia and an investigation was
opened, as well as a police investigation
by the Athens/Clarke Police
Department. To this day, nothing has
been resolved.
Georgia has no password protection
on the registration site but they have the
same policy Kentucky has for emailing
any action taken regarding the company.
The problem is that the crooks simply
enter their email address as well as yours
and, as in the article, they can then go
back and change the information swiftly
in hopes that it will not be detected.
Because I was told by the investiga-
tor at the SoS office that this was a
problem that would require a legislative
action to change the circumstances, I
also contacted my local state represen-
tative, who happens to own a business
as well, and he was shocked that this
could happen.
As I understand it, this is a very
simple problem to fix if we can just
rally our legislative arm to make the
change in the corporate “open-access”
law that would close this backdoor to
our businesses.
Lori Anne Lord
Owner/President
Promotional Marketing Services
Athens, Georgia
UPIC: PMSI247
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