The Fraud Chick
Ethics,#2Consumer Suggestion
Fri, May 10, 2002
Donald, It sounds like another vanity scam. There are groups out there preying on people's hopes and dreams. Modeling agencies, script reading agents, poetry schemes, and invention promoters--you get the idea. Report these folks to the United States Postal inspection Service at http://www.usps.com/postalinspectors/. Then call and leave a message on their answering machine telling them you've reported them and you demand your money back. Take care, though, if you paid to have a poem published in one of those outrageously unprofessional poetry "books" you may be bound because they provided the service. The only people who buy these books are the people who pay to have their poems published. Many times the companies don't even bother to edit or correct spelling! Whatever you do don't fall for the poetry convention portion of the scam. That can be a costly mistake. Good Luck!