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The "Get Paid To Drive Concept by Coors-Light Beer" auto car wrap or autowrapping advertising below is a scam. The scam claims that vehicle owners with a driver's license can be paid $500 or more weekly via check (cheque) to have their vehicle wrapped with an advertisement. The scammers behind this fraudulent scheme or scam will send you fake checks, ask you to take your share of the money and wire the rest to a graphic designer or give it to someone else. But, the checks are fakes and will bounce. The wired money will actually go to the scammers behind this fraudulent scheme. You will then be left to pay back the bank the wired amount and other charges associated with the processing of the check. Whenever you receive offers that are too good to be true, please do your research before participating, even if the offers seem legitimate.
Recipients of the following "Get Paid To Drive Concept by Coors-Light Beer" email message or something similar is asked to delete it and should not follow the instructions in it.
GET Paid to Drive Concept by Coors-Light BeerWe are currently seeking to employ individual's worldwide. Would you like to oney by simply driving your car advertising for Coors-Light® Beer?How it works.Here's the basic premise of the "Paid to drive" concept:Coors-Light Beer see people, regular citizens, professional drivers to go about their normal routine as they usually do, only with a small advert of Coors-Light® Beer plastered on your bike/car/truck. The ads are typically vinyl decals, also 'mow auto wraps" that almost seem to be painted on the vehicle and which w r any portion of your bike/car/truck exterior surface.What does the company get out of this type of ad strategy? Lots of exposure and awareness. The auto wraps tend to be colorful, eye-catching and attract lots of attention. Plus, it's a form of advertising with a captive audience, meaning that people who are stuck in traffic can't avoid seeing the wrapped car alongside them. Coors-Light® Beer giant focuses on younger audience after research showed almost half of under-28s have not tried a Coors-Light® Beer. This program will last for 3 months and the minimum you can participate is 6 weeks.You will be compensated with $400 per week which is essentially a rental payment for letting Coors-Light® use the space no fee is required from you to get started. Coors-Light® Beer shall provide experts that would handle the advert placing on your bike/car/truck. You will receive an upfront payment of $400 inform of check via courier service for accepting to carry this advert on your bike/car/truck.Best Regards,Coors-Light Beer
GET Paid to Drive Concept by Coors-Light Beer
We are currently seeking to employ individual's worldwide. Would you like to oney by simply driving your car advertising for Coors-Light® Beer?
How it works.
Here's the basic premise of the "Paid to drive" concept:Coors-Light Beer see people, regular citizens, professional drivers to go about their normal routine as they usually do, only with a small advert of Coors-Light® Beer plastered on your bike/car/truck. The ads are typically vinyl decals, also 'mow auto wraps" that almost seem to be painted on the vehicle and which w r any portion of your bike/car/truck exterior surface.
What does the company get out of this type of ad strategy? Lots of exposure and awareness. The auto wraps tend to be colorful, eye-catching and attract lots of attention. Plus, it's a form of advertising with a captive audience, meaning that people who are stuck in traffic can't avoid seeing the wrapped car alongside them. Coors-Light® Beer giant focuses on younger audience after research showed almost half of under-28s have not tried a Coors-Light® Beer. This program will last for 3 months and the minimum you can participate is 6 weeks.
You will be compensated with $400 per week which is essentially a rental payment for letting Coors-Light® use the space no fee is required from you to get started. Coors-Light® Beer shall provide experts that would handle the advert placing on your bike/car/truck. You will receive an upfront payment of $400 inform of check via courier service for accepting to carry this advert on your bike/car/truck.
Best Regards,
Coors-Light Beer
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Why are company allowed to do these things and get away with it?
Here is another scam: "From: Trinity Leonard Date: January 21, 2019 at 10:33:42 AM PST Subject: Re: Feedback via the COORS LIGHT DRINK DECAL [#4] You are to deduct your part which is 800.00 and and forward the rest to their bank account information sent to you via bank transfer and get back to us with the confirmation as soon as you get that done. As soon as the payment is acknowledged by them, a local man will come to your house and install the decal on your vehicle. Is that understood? Below is the information needed for the bank transfer-: Bank Name-Bank Of America(BOA) Graphic Artist Head Office Manager- Collins David Account Number-325066225258 Routine Number-121000358 Address- 8850 Ferguson rd Dallas,TX 75228 Acknowledge the receipt of this information immediately On Jan 18, 2019 2:02 PM, "Trinity Leonard" wrote: Hi Corrie, How are you doing? Am Glad to Inform you that payment has been sent out to your location and will be deliver via FedEx courier service. Below is the transaction Details: Check Amount : $3,535.82 FedEx Tracking Number : 785023698987 Scheduled delivery: Saturday 1/19/2019 10:00 AM Once you receive the Check, take it to your Bank or Nearest ATM and have it deposited. We will be waiting for a confirmation message immediately the check is deposited so we can proceed. Acknowledge receipt of this email immediately and looking forward to your mail with further updates. Best Regards, Hiring Manager"
Here is another scam: "From: Ryan Jason Date: October 1, 2018 at 11:43:20 AM EDT Subject: Re: Feedback via the COORS LIGHT DRINK [#52] CONGRATULATION! You do qualify to carry the advert on your vehicle. Also we have OUT-SOURCED the payment of funds to you to another Agency, so please do not be alarmed by the payment not coming directly from Coors Light®. So we are currently working with them on sending out the fund to you to get the advert placed on your vehicle, note that the Check payment will be sent to you to cover your first week salary of $400 and also the Specialist fund will be included, you will have it deposit and when the Check clears which will be in a day or two, you are to deduct your $400 and the rest will be going to the Specialist that will be responsible for the Advert placement on your vehicle, we will also send you the information to send it to and Instruction with details that will guide you on the proceeding for the decal to be placed as soon as the upfront payment has been delivered to you. Acknowledge receipt of this email immediately..."
Received this scam:"DecalForry1991 Jacobson Apr 30 at 12:01 PMHello, am happy to welcome you here...Kindly read the information onthe attached file and get back with the following details to processyour application;FULL NAME:ADDRESS:CITY:STATE:ZIP CODE:PHONE NUMBER ;AGE ;S*X ;OCCUPATIONNAME/COLOR & MODEL YEAR OF YOUR CAR/TRUCK OR BIKE"
Here is another scam: "From: pCloud Transfer Date: April 17, 2018 at 12:11:06 PM CDT Subject: coorslight4u@gmail.com sent you files via pCloud Transfer Reply-To: pCloud Transfer pCloud coorslight4u@gmail.com sent you 1 file via pCloud Transfer: Files (63.88 KB) – Coors-Light.jpg " MAKE $400 WEEKLY WHILE DRIVING AROUND THE TOWN FROM Coors light Drink! Can you allow US to put a small Decal on your CAR/TRUCK/BIKE?. For more details, contact the Manager at forry1991jacobson@gmail.com" The following files will be available for download until Tue, 24 Apr 2018. DOWNLOAD Best wishes, The pCloud team P.S. By the way, have you tried pCloud? You get up to 20 GB of free cloud storage to keep and share even larger files. Try it free here!"
Here is another scam: "On Jan 15, 2018 6:03 AM, "James Jennings" wrote: Hello, am happy to welcome you here...Kindly read the information on the attached file and get back with the following details to process your application; FULL NAME; ADDRESS; CITY; STATE; ZIP CODE; PHONE NUMBER ; AGE ; S*X ; OCCUPATION; NAME/COLOR & MODEL YEAR OF YOUR CAR/TRUCK OR BIKE; Best Regards, Jose Williams Hiring Manager Coors Brewing Company®"
Received the following scam: "- Forwarded message - From: "James Jennings" Date: Jan 15, 2018 8:02 AM Subject: Re: Decal Hello, am happy to welcome you here...Kindly read the information on the attached file and get back with the following details to process your application; FULL NAME; ADDRESS; CITY; STATE; ZIP CODE; PHONE NUMBER ; AGE ; S*X ; OCCUPATION; NAME/COLOR & MODEL YEAR OF YOUR CAR/TRUCK OR BIKE; Best Regards, Jose Williams Hiring Manager Coors Brewing Company®"
