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Scam targets relativesof recently deceased
YOUNGSTOWN -- The Better Business Bureau of Mahoning Valley warns area residents who receive invoices from unknown businesses to call the agency for a reliability report.
The agency says Exodus Collection Services is sending Allient Visa Card invoices to families across the United States that have had a recent death. Recipients are instructed to send a check or money order for between $138 and $700. The BBB says Exodus is not a licensed company, and Allient is not affiliated with Visa. Phone numbers listed on the invoice are disconnected, and the address is a box at Mail Boxes Etc.
The BBB says many people may have paid the invoice without checking if the deceased family member ever incurred such a debt.
Speaker to addressinventors association
BOARDMAN -- The Youngstown-Warren Inventors Association will meet at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Boardman Township administration building. Holly Fritz, sales and marketing director of Internet Data Management, will speak on creating a Web site for electronic commerce. The meeting is free and open to the public.
NATION
Survey says bossesvalue team players
NEW YORK -- Your high school coach may have repeated it ad nauseum: "Remember, there's no 'I' in team." Your boss might be thinking along similar lines.
In mid-October, a Yahoo! Inc. subsidiary, New York-based HotJobs.com, surveyed bosses and employees in advance of National Boss Day. One question asked what qualities bosses value in workers. Of bosses who responded, 37 percent said "being a team player" was most important, followed by dedication to quality work.
On the other side of the equation, bosses weren't thrilled over "the ability to be a self-starter," with only 12 percent liking such initiative. And only 7 percent said they want employees who "think outside the box."
Vindicator staff and wire reports