So, take it from Uncle Sam: Beware.
If you accept, youll soon notice things getting weird.
The goal is to get the installer the money quickly, the FTC says.
Putting ads on your car may sound like easy money, but it’ll often end up costing you.Photo: Dr David Sing (Shutterstock)
In other words, youll be paying the scammers from your own pocket.
As for the car wrap installer?
That doesnt mean non-students should rest easy, though.
Scammers dont care what profession you have in life.
Sometimes, theyll even place ads offering paid car wrapping gigs in the hope that people will contact them.
A tale of a car wrapping scam
These scams arent new: Theyve been around for years.
I first went to my bank for help.
I did a mobile deposit so I still had the check and showed it to the teller.
They told me that the check did look fake, and I should cease talking to this scammer immediately.
In the Reddit users case, there were other warning signs, too.
The email they received had typos and it included a different signature with every new email.
He told me to keep the $350 for my payment and use the rest to cover the wrapping.
If you get a message urging you to deposit a check and wire money back, its a scam.
No matter the story, the FTC wrote inanother consumer alerton car wrapping scams.
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