Winter is coming… and so are scam emails that deserve to be “corrected” with an industrial-sized application of Wite-Out.
Credit this scammer with being pro-active: before the first flake has fallen, they’re already email-blasting with the fearsome force of a Force 10 blizzard. Speaking of fear, the message plays on a couple of them: fear of a snowy driveway, and fear of breaking a contract. Lucky for me, I (A) don’t have a driveway and (B) I didn’t sign a contract for winter driveway plowing because see (A).
Even if I did – on both counts – I’m not confident the company (which isn’t named, by the way) would provide prompt service after a snowstorm, being that the email was sent from an address in France.
This “cool” offer has other issues as well. They say my contract price is the same this year as it was for last year, and that’s why I haven’t received a formal invoice. Seems legit? Not in the least – and without a stated price, how am I supposed to pay to renew?
Even worse, “any payment received after September 15, 2026, could result in the cancellation of the renewal”… in other words, the same result as if I had not paid at all!
In any event, the email was received on November 6 so it seems I’m too late to pay an undetermined amount for a service I did not contract for, nor need.