"To me, it seemed like it could be a scam because I got an actual check the first time," he said. So he couldn't understand why the Internal Revenue Service would supposedly send him his stimulus money on a Visa card when he received his first stimulus payment on a paper check last year.
"After being had a couple of times, you get a little gun-shy," Brazill said.
Someone called him claiming to be from Amazon about two hours after he called Amazon once and, well, he thought it was Amazon, so he exchanged some personal information that he wishes he wouldn't have handed over. He knows the scammers are out there with all kinds of tricks. Why am I getting a plastic debit card when I got a stimulus check last time?īut the Ford retiree was skeptical. All he had to do was call a number to activate the second Economic Impact Payment, which began rolling out to millions of people across the country in late December. The card was connected to the federal government's stimulus payments. Instead, it was "important information about your Economic Impact Payment." The white envelope has a red notice printed on it, claiming this mailing wasn't a bill or an advertisement. The card itself happens to be blue, too, with stars all over it. Is it a scam?Ībout a week ago, Brazill said a Visa card popped up in the mail out of the blue. While some people are still wondering when their second round of stimulus money will show up, others aren't quite sure what's happening when a plastic bank card arrives in the mail. Daniel Brazill has been convinced for the past week that he just pulled the latest scam out of his mailbox when he could have been out spending his $600 in stimulus cash.
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