St Joseph Police are warning area businesses about a scam that has been around for awhile, but recently resurfaced.

Captain Kevin Castle tells us they took a report from R&W Tow and Recovery about the scam.

The owner of the company said he received an email the day before with an advertisement from a company calling itself ‘Eagle Marketing Group’.

(NOT to be confused with Eagle Communications, the parent company of St Joe Post and  radio stations K-Jo 105.5/Q Country 92.7/680 KFEQ/ESPN 1550)

The e-mail ad said it was selling tv spots, and later that day a man with out-of-state license plates came to the business with a poster of the advertisement.  Castle says the man had an invoice and was attempting to collect money for selling the ads.

Other businesses in past years have been approached in a similar manner, according to Castle.

“The businesses on the ads have not authorized the use of their names, ” Castle said in the advisory, “and the advertising spots are not believed to exist. ”

“In past instances, business who ‘purchased’ the ads, learned their checks were quickly cashed and the subjects selling them had left town.  “