{"id":800,"date":"2015-10-14T18:31:34","date_gmt":"2015-10-14T18:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/picb-us.com\/picb\/?p=800"},"modified":"2023-08-14T20:59:19","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T20:59:19","slug":"warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/picb-us.com\/warning\/","title":{"rendered":"Warning"},"content":{"rendered":"

PRINTERS AND PIA MEMBERS BE WARNED!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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THE BAD GUYS ARE BACK AGAIN….<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

We have been alerted by an East Coast Member that they were recently victimized by the old Canadian mail scam and we wish to warn all to be very careful that you are not similarly victimized.<\/p>\n

THE EASY FIX<\/span>\u00a0—–\u00a0<\/strong>Check the customer\u2019s address and if it is a UPS store or some similar type of business, know that your hard earned money may be at risk.<\/p>\n

DO NOT RELY UPON THE COMMON FEE <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

BASED REPORTS AS THEY RARELY <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

IDENTIFY A MAIL DROP<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Should you determine you may have been marked as a potential victim, again the easiest way to confirm this is to ASK YOUR CUSTOMER<\/strong><\/span> to verify and identify their true business location and VERIFY IT<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0—If they won\u2019t\u2014you don\u2019t!<\/p>\n

This last victim lost more than $50k, and in the past, I have seen losses as great as a $1\/2 mil.<\/p>\n

Here is how this newest gyration works, The so-called customer–and the name always changes– contacts an unaware printer with the perfect job—a cheap postcard mailer or similar \u2018mailer\u2019 piece, indicating high profit, low costs, and rapid turn times. They promise to pay cash in advance and they actually do send you a check payable to you for everything, you then deposit this instrument thinking it to be good and it\u2019s not.<\/p>\n

Believing you have the perfect customer you complete the printing quickly and deliver it to the post office for mailing–You look forward to future profits and print opportunities only to be shocked when the check comes back as a worthless instrument—and naturally the customer has now disappeared with your hard earned money!<\/p>\n

Many printers over the years have asked \u2018How do they profit off this?\u2019<\/p>\n

Easily, they are hawking products consumers will buy \u2013 and by the way there really is no product delivered either, if they get 1% purchasing their phony product which costs between $19.99 \u2013 99.99, do the math\u2014with little effort \u2013the time to find a willing victim\u2014how much money did they make at your expense.<\/p>\n

PLEASE ALL BE CAREFUL…<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Andrea Schlack\u00a0–\u00a0President
\nPrinting Industry Credit Bureau – PICB
\n847\/265-0400<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

PRINTERS AND PIA MEMBERS BE WARNED! THE BAD GUYS ARE BACK AGAIN…. We have been alerted by an East Coast Member that they were recently victimized by the old Canadian mail scam and we wish to warn all to be very careful that you are not similarly victimized. THE EASY FIX\u00a0—–\u00a0Check the customer\u2019s address and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/picb-us.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/picb-us.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/picb-us.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/picb-us.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/picb-us.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=800"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/picb-us.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9739,"href":"https:\/\/picb-us.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800\/revisions\/9739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/picb-us.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/picb-us.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/picb-us.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}