Spam Masquerading as Official, Important Mail: Paramount Merchant Funding
It's been a while since I have received a fake "check" whose cashing obligates me to a four year contract, or a deceptive yellow pages solicitation, or even my favorite, the board minutes services that masquerade as an official government form. So I will highlight Paramount Merchant Funding for this over the top message on the front of their envelope they sent me, again in an apparent bid to masquerade as some sort of official mail that must be opened.
The scam here is clever -- I don't have time to bother looking it up, but my guess is that this message is literally true - for all mail sent through the USPS. But it is obviously meant to virtually force someone to open it thinking it is official, which I was dumb enough to do.
They seem to have a perfect 1-star review record over at Yelp, a fact I could have called in advance sight unseen. They have more BBB complaints in the last year (5) than my company has in our whole history (0).
