Though Gettysburg National Military Park is located in Adams County, Pennsylvania. The museum and visitor center is located at 1195 Baltimore Pike (Route 97) with a back entrance from the Taneytown Road (State Rt. 134) is a mouthful to remember
FWIW, Snopes says “unproven” so I guess they’re unsure one way or the other.
Can’t prove a negative. The fact they’ve been unable to ever verify a single account tells me it’s likely false.
Ouch. But funny.
Interesting. They list two different addresses on their website and the phone number, though registered to NPC, is a cell phone.
ICANN:
Registry Expiration: 2024-05-11 15:17:29 UTC
Updated: 2023-05-12 14:31:27 UTC
Created: 2020-05-11 15:17:29 UTC
A bit on the new side but scammers typically only register for a year at a time.
I occasionally get similar refunds from medical billing companies. In my case it is usually because I made a copay for a treatment, but then for whatever obscure insurance reason the copay was not actually necessary. The refund is not from the name that originally charged my credit card, but from some medical billing company. Sometimes it is from the subsidiary of the hospital that does billing, sometimes it is from the whatever random billing company the doctors use.
Without a great deal of detective work it is never possible for me to figure out exactly which treatment generated the refund.
My thinking is that I always deposit the checks immediately. Then, if there is some mistake, or scam, or whatever, I’m the one holding the money.
I got a $20 dollar check once due to my being charged a copay that I shouldn’t have been charged. It listed the date services were rendered. Over the next few weeks I received two more checks, each for $20, each listing the same date!
I deposited each check and then never heard anything else about the matter.
Last update. The bill was paid on Friday night and the bank called twice on Saturday, but has not called during the last three days, so I guess it was real. Why not just call me and say I should call the number on the back of the CC?
Update: Talked to the customer-service/fraud dept at our bank, and they couldn’t tell if a scam or not. Wife (former banker) consulted some more docs and records, and the actual check is on a real account, with legitimate numbers/routing/etc. Called the issuing bank, which is a good-sized company here, but they refused to provide any info about the issuing company’s account, since we aren’t customers.
Final decision was to deposit the check in one of our “transfer” accounts where it’s isolated from normal $$ traffic. That bank has no connections to any of our savings/investments or normal checking. We’ll let it languish there for a few weeks to see what happens. After some period we’ll go ahead and move it into our regular accounts.
I’ll repost about it if anything odd happens.
Many years ago there was a woman with two daughters who would come to my business. They all dressed rather shabbily but we’re very pleasant. I assumed they barely scraped by, so I went out of my way to help them. Sometimes a daughter would come in by herself without a purse/wallet/cash and I’d just write off the cost of helping her.
One day I got a Thank You card in the mail from the mother. She thanked me for all the help I provided to her and her daughters. There was a check for $5,000.00. I smiled and set the check aside.
A few weeks later I was at my bank, a small local bank, which was the same bank the woman had her account with. I thought if the bank knew the woman was writing NSF checks maybe they could talk with her or hook her up with social services. The bank teller cracked up. The woman was one of their bigger depositors and the check I had was a pittance.