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Sherman A1

(38,958 posts)
Sun Aug 18, 2019, 04:35 AM Aug 2019

Scammers Target Small-Town Missouri Businesses For Their Love Of High School Football

Small towns love their high school football team.

So much so, that every year around this time there are scam artists who try to prey upon that pride to get money from local businesses.

The scam works like this: An out-of-town printing company calls businesses saying it is printing items to promote the high school team, and asks them to be sponsors by buying an ad.

But the money doesn’t go to support the team, and the items may never be printed

https://news.stlpublicradio.org/post/scammers-target-small-town-missouri-businesses-their-love-high-school-football

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