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View Full Version : Warning scam email going around!
CBBBShannon
03-25-2006, 08:13 AM
Ladies, please please be careful if you get an email from someone requesting for a catalog and samples from your company. Many Country Bunny rep.'s have received this email, anda few from other DS companies as well. Here is the email--please ignore it and let your company know you have received it!
Hi, my name is Michelle. I\'ve seen your website and you have some very interesting products on it. I\'m very skeptical about ordering before trying. I was wondering if you could kindly send me some free product samples, I\'d really appreciate it. If you have a catalog, you may also send one:) If you can do this for me, please send
to:
Michelle Whitney
Po Box 163
Elmwood, Ma 02337
Please feel free to email me at michelle341983@yahoo.com (http://www.bunnymart.com/email/src/compose.php?send_to=michelle341983%40yahoo.com) if you should have any questions. Right now I\'m not interested in the business opp, just becoming a customer if interested in the product line. Thank you so much!
I emailed her back right away asking what kinds of scents she wanted, etc. And she promptly wrote back all the stuff she wanted me to send. Within seconds of this I emailed her back and let her know that another rep. alerted me that she already contacted her. This "Michelle" then quickly repsonded saying "Oops I forgot to tell you I did find another rep." I then let her know that she was found out. It has been about 20 rep.'s who have received this email that we know of. Please spread the word to your team. I don't want to see anyone swindled!Edited by: CBBBShannon
Hi, my name is Michelle. I\'ve seen your website and you have some very interesting products on it. I\'m very skeptical about ordering before trying. I was wondering if you could kindly send me some free product samples, I\'d really appreciate it. If you have a catalog, you may also send one:) If you can do this for me, please send
to:
Michelle Whitney
Po Box 163
Elmwood, Ma 02337
Please feel free to email me at michelle341983@yahoo.com (http://www.bunnymart.com/email/src/compose.php?send_to=michelle341983%40yahoo.com) if you should have any questions. Right now I\'m not interested in the business opp, just becoming a customer if interested in the product line. Thank you so much!
I emailed her back right away asking what kinds of scents she wanted, etc. And she promptly wrote back all the stuff she wanted me to send. Within seconds of this I emailed her back and let her know that another rep. alerted me that she already contacted her. This "Michelle" then quickly repsonded saying "Oops I forgot to tell you I did find another rep." I then let her know that she was found out. It has been about 20 rep.'s who have received this email that we know of. Please spread the word to your team. I don't want to see anyone swindled!Edited by: CBBBShannon
cinnamonmomof3
03-25-2006, 10:02 AM
Unfortunately this kind of thing happens all the time. Some people just want something for nothing, it’s disgusting.
jodysromance
03-28-2006, 09:48 AM
URGH I sent her stuff! smileys/smiley7.gif I was kinda shocked that she wanted samples no questions asked, but emails are sometimes that way. I did however Send her stuff! URGH
CBBBShannon
03-28-2006, 09:59 AM
Judy I am sorry to hear that. Another CB rep. did some searching and found that she is promoting herself to have her own bath and body company. I also found a second email address on her.
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lovethiscandle
03-29-2006, 10:15 PM
Thank you for posting this, how would anyone ever know??
CBBBShannon
03-30-2006, 05:06 AM
Debra, that's hard. But most DS companies have a particular message board that the rep.'s hang out on. For CB rep.'s if someone gets a suspicious email, they post about it and ask the other rep.'s. This is what happened last week, and that is when one after another we all came forward to find out that most of us also received this email.
The main thing that we found suspicious is that in a follow up email she told each of us that she found us through the rep. locator. Right away we knew because there are plenty of rep.'s close to her...and she contacted so many rep.'s from other states. <!--
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