Anyone sending these offers does not represent Dr Pepper Snapple Group or any of our brands and is most likely attempting a scam."ĭon't Waste Your Money" is a registered trademark of Scripps Media, Inc. "We do not have a program offering to wrap cars in advertising graphics for any of our brands. So avoid these offers, so you don't waste your money.įULL STATEMENT FROM DR PEPPER- SNAPPLE GROUP: If you have an accident or are caught speeding they could be liable. That would have been a tough life lesson for a young woman just out of high school.īottom line: No beverage company will pay someone who is not a company employee to drive a car with their logos on it. And from what I understand, if you deposit it and spend your money you're responsible to pay it back." "This check does look real," Miller said. Red Bull, Rockstar Energy Drink, Casio watches, and Nike are likewise not paying people to put their logo on their car.īut people are falling for it, because the job offer sounds plausible (we have all seen marketing cars), and the checks appear perfectly legitimate. They are not paying people to put ads on their car (see full statement below). "If she had opened this, she probably would have been at the bank and cashed it," Miller said.ĭr Pepper- Snapple has issued an alert that this job offer is a scam. Thank goodness, she says, that she opened the envelope before her niece did. It sounded like easy money: anywhere from $200 to $500 a month just to put a sticker on your car advertising a soft drink.īut Miller immediately felt the whole thing was suspicious. Then her car would be wrapped with Dr Pepper advertising. The instructions told her to deposit the check, then wire half of it to the car wrapping agent, and keep the rest for herself. "To my surprise she got a check from PNC bank for $2,500," Miller said. So when she received a text from Dr Pepper - Snapple offering to pay her to wrap her car with ads, the young woman was obviously interested.Ī few days later she received a large packet in the mail. The recent high school grad entered her information. "She was looking for work, was freshly graduated, and she went to some online job hunting sites," Miller said. Susan Miller's 17-year-old niece thought it would be a great first job.
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