Are free magazine subscriptions really free — or are they scams?
Our friend Jessica sent us this on free magazine subscriptions: I love ScamBusters and wanted to share this with your readers. A few months ago I received an offer for a free magazine subscription. It looked like a magazine that I’d be interested in, so I decided to take the company up on the offer and I accepted the free subscription. Mistake number 1 — I didn’t read the fine print. Now normally I’m the one telling everyone to read the fine print before accepting anything for free, but this time I didn’t follow my own advice and I took the offer at face value. That was mistake number 2. I thought that because I didn’t provide the company with my credit card number, there would be no way they could charge my credit card for the magazines. That was the third big mistake on my part. You see, the free magazine offer was given to me after I had made a purchase at a certain store. I had used my credit card to make the purchase, and that same credit card information was given to the magazin
