From cbrown at osrhe.edu Tue Dec 19 13:18:59 2006 From: cbrown at osrhe.edu (Brown, Cynthia) Date: Tue Dec 19 13:16:33 2006 Subject: [Okepas] FW: Scam Alert Message-ID: -----Original Message----- From: Brown, Cynthia Sent: Monday, December 18, 2006 2:46 PM To: 'Judy.Trice@act.org'; Higdon, Matt; Lousch, Cari Please let your students/parents/community know about this. Cindy All, Just wanted to alert you to a disturbing situation in Oklahoma. This is an excerpt from an e-mail sent internally by Karen Pennell: I got a call this AM from the principal of Sand Springs HS in the Tulsa area. The mother of one of his students received a call from a scam artist saying that he was representing ACT, he knew her daughter's name, high school, and that she was probably going to take the ACT in April. The scam artist said that ACT was concerned that all students be prepared and he was going to send an ACT preparation kit to the daughter (for ONLY $109 but he needed the mothers credit card number to send her the ACT preparation kit). The mother said that she would have to call him back because her husband usually took care of all of the finances! The scam artist then just hung up. The mother called the principal of Sand Springs H.S. to see if ACT was really calling students and selling ACT preparation kits. That is when he called me to ask. I told him that ACT would never call individual students and then ask for credit cards. The principal was being interviewed by one of the Tulsa televisions stations so he wanted to make sure that ACT was not involved. I told him that we were NOT. You may end up hearing/seeing this on the news in your state. If you receive any calls, please assure the callers that ACT does NOT call and attempt to sell products to parents or students, nor would anyone from ACT EVER call and ask for credit card information. Our folks in Iowa City are aware of the problem and are looking into it. Thanks, Judy Judy Trice Consultant, Middle and Secondary School Services Southwest Region, ACT, Inc. Phone: 512-345-1949 Fax: 512-345-2997 e-mail: judy.trice@act.org