The door-to-door alerts shared by WSB’ers have both alerted people to ruses and resulted in information verifying legitimate sellers – so in that spirit, here’s the latest:
Just out of the WSB inbox:
I’m writing because I just had a solicitor come to my door selling Magazines,with a hook.
First of all it was a young female probably between 18 to 22 years old. She kind of wandered past my gate,(probably looking in the windows to see if she could see anybody) then she gave a whistle to see if there was any dogs in the yard. When she heard the dogs in the house she came in the gate. I live in the 3600 Block of 48th Ave SW. When I opened the door she said she was the daughter of a neighbor,although I have never seen her. She said the her school had won a soccer championship and were traveling to Holland. As a way to raise funds for the trip she was selling magazines. The hook is that the mags were not for me ,but for OUR TROOPS.Whereupon she handed me a laminated sheet with names and APO addresses including USS Enterprise.
She never mentioned the name of her school,had no ID visible,and seemed pretty casual.
I sent her on her way. She proceeded through the neighborhood ,whistling at gates and then approaching doors.
Past door-to-door alerts (be sure to read the comments, where additional information often emerges) are here; city rules regarding door-to-door solicitors are here.
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