Alaska Scam Alert: Beware Of Eager Young College Girls With Soulful Eyes Selling You "Magazine Subscriptions" Door-To-Door

Published: August 6, 2007, 3:42 pm

Tags: consumer scams, consumer alerts, consumer issues

Note: The following post merely describes the manifestation of this scam in Alaska. It is also occurring nationwide.Several years ago, there was a door-to-door sales scheme taking place here in South Central Alaska. A young person, usually an "eager young college girl with soulful eyes" would show up at your door, explain that she was going to school, and invited you to help her work her way through school. After a protracted exchange of banalities and pleasantries, she would suddenly brandish a Talmudic-size list of magazines and periodicals and ask you to consider subscribing to them. She would ALWAYS claim she had a better selection of magazines than any store (naturally, the list NEVER had any Politically Incorrect periodicals included such as National Socialist Magazine, Free Speech, or The Nationalist Times).Of course, I always said NO; after all, Anchorage is a city of 270,000, and the shelves of our local stores teem with nearly every possible magazine imaginable, half of

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