Local residents are being warned about a two-step scam that involves an e-mail and a “priority mail” package sent to their home.
A local resident said last week that he received an e-mail, which informed him that he had been selected to participate in a survey program and would be receiving more information in the mail.
Within a day or two of getting the e-mail, a large priority mail envelope was delivered by the local post office to his home. Inside that package he found a cashier’s check in the amount of $1,967.23, along with an instruction letter for an “Ebay/Wal-Mart Survey ...