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BBB Can you spot the typo in this fraudulent newspaper subscription notice? Don't believe everything you read in the paper. And don't believe it every time you think you get a paper's subscription renewal notice. Newspapers across the country are warning readers to be on the lookout for fraudulent renewal notices in the mail. The scammers have targeted readers at dozens of newspapers, including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Arizona Republic, Dallas Morning News, Denver Post and Seattle Times. , the fraudsters are using a variety of names and addresses, including Publisher鈥檚 Billing Exchange, Reader鈥檚 Payment Service, Associated Publishers Network and Platinum Subscription Services, just to name a few. The bogus renewal notices ask for checks to be made out to the company and not the newspaper, and sent to a P.O. Box in Oregon or Nevada. Credit card payments are also accepted online.

BBBThe fake 鈥渞enewal/new order鈥?notices are for significantly more, sometimes hundreds of dollars more, than the actual subscription rate.聽
鈥淓ven if you do pay up, don鈥檛 expect to see your subscription renewed. It鈥檚 likely scammers will just pocket your money,鈥?warns a BBB scam alert.

When in doubt, contact your newspaper鈥檚 customer service department before sending any money. The U.S. Postal Service is investigating.

Herb Weisbaum is The ConsumerMan. Follow him on and or visit website.

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