Scammers capitalize on Packers’ Super Bowl parties, target restaurants

The Wisconsin Better Business Bureau is warning restaurants and catering companies to beware of scammers using the TTY relay system to place orders for Packers’ Super Bowl parties.

Over the weekend, a restaurant in Oak Creek received a large order for food to be delivered during a Super Bowl party. The customer used the TTY relay system, a system which enables hearing impaired people to use a telephone with the help of a relay operator. The customer wanted to use a credit card to pay for the order and told the owner that, since the delivery company the customer was using didn’t accept credit cards, the restaurant would need to pay the deliverer in cash but would be reimbursed by adding the charges to the customer’s credit card.

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