Scammers often reach out to people via text or email and say they’ll deposit a check into their accounts to pay for their services and installation. It’s fake.
While having someone pay you to wrap your car with ads sounds like easy work, there’s a good chance it’ll end up costing you money in the end. So, take it from Uncle Sam: Beware. In a consumer alert issued this week, the Federal Trade Commission warned the public against so-called “car wrapping scams,” where scammers offer to pay you to shrink-wrap your car with ads for popular brands, such as Monster Energy or Pepsi .
That doesn’t mean non-students should rest easy, though. Scammers don’t care what profession you have in life. Sometimes, they’ll 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 aren’t new: They’ve been around for years. One Reddit user described receiving an email in 2021 from someone who pretended to be the dean of their college offering them $350 per week to wrap their car to promote the Super Bowl.
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