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MANAGEMENT
BE ALERT, BE VIGILANT TO BE SAFE FROM SCAMS
BY TINA BERRES FILIPSKI
ARE YOU THE NEXT VICTIM?
Unfortunately, scams are nothing new and, as technology
has become more ever-present in our daily lives, opportunities
for criminals looking to pull a fast one have become more per-
vasive and more elaborate.
In Parke’s case, the scammers posted a listing on Craigslist
offering an easy $100 to anyone willing to go to a local mail
store, sign for two boxes shipped there, re-label them and ship
them to a Las Vegas address. Valerie bit.
She was told to pretend to be Parke’s secretary and she
completed the deed. When she didn’t receive her $100 as
promised, she looked up the phone number for Advertising
Specialties and made the phone call to Parke that revealed
the scam.
Parke immediately called police who investigated and
found out the scammers had gone to the Kentucky Secretary
of State website, paid a $10 filing fee and changed Parke’s
company address to the P.O. box. Then they opened a
Verizon account with 15 phones listed under Parke’s name.
Three days later the perpetrators went back to the state web-
site, paid another $10 filing fee and reversed the address
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N LATE JANUARY, LISA PARKE,
owner of Advertising Specialties, LLC
(UPIC: A330798) in Lexington,
Kentucky, was busy with a client when she
received a phone call from a woman named
Valerie. The woman wanted to collect the $100
she said she earned from a job listed by
Advertising Specialties on Craigslist. The
problem was that Parke had not posted a job.
Suddenly both women realized they were part
of a scam.
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