Spam and Scams

There is little I despise more than a well-wrought scam. Having been involved myself, thanks to Jon, in a scam known as the “Comcast Experience” I think I can freely express my views on this subject.

Today I left class and was walking out to the enormous parking lots adjacent the Weber State’s football stadium when I noticed thousands of little yellow papers, one taped to every single car in the few lots that I could see. I was amazed at the outrageous number of flyers this individual or organization was able to strategically place on every car in the almost full parking areas in under three hours. Curious as to what might require this type of mass advertising I quickly walked to Brynn’s trusty old Jeep and peeled the little yellow note off the driver’s side window. At the top it read “Free Pizza at Papa Johns.” Under this title was the statement “bring your id” and “see store for details.” I remembered getting this almost identically worded flyer in Logan one time but instead of yellow paper, it was blue and in place of Papa Johns the flier was for Fredrico’s Pizza. The first flyer from Logan sent a group of us to Fredrico’s to cash in our coupon for free pizzas. Upon arriving we noticed a booth outside with a small line of people. We went straight to the front to see what it was all about. We soon discovered that the booth was from a credit card company signing people up for credit cards and then letting them have a free slice of pizza! Bull. That is false advertising. We marched into Fredrico’s Pizza and complained that the flyers lied, and that they shouldn’t be affiliating themselves with such a corrupt group. The people I was with did a little more complaining and the Fredrico’s management actually went outside and told the booth people that they are providing bad business and that they need to leave. The booth was shut down and I figured that scam would die off never to return. Little did I know it is alive and well in Ogden.

I hate credit card signup booths and don’t we get enough offers in the mail already? If you have a great scam experience you would like to share, post it in the comment section.