I am receiving magazines that I did not order. Please stop
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Typical opening move in a scam..
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When unordered magazines just start showing up, it may be the opening move in a shakedown scam run by some sleazy magazine marketer. It's not illegal to send unordered magazines, but it is illegal to demand payment for them. It's a form of fraud, including mail fraud.
Contact the publishers directly to cancel the unwanted "subscriptions". They will probably give you a bunch of BS about how "they can't cancel, you have to contact XYZ marketer". Get the contact information on the scammer behind this. Follow up with a letter to each publisher notifying them again to cancel the unauthorized "subscriptions", and that you will include them in your mail fraud complaint if you get billed for them.
If they start calling you demanding money, or send you a bill, file fraud complaints with FTC, your state Attorney General, and the US Postal Inspector. They know they are playing a game of "chicken", and only win when they find a sucker, so don't be a sucker.
The magazines you received are typical of this sort of scam. They're buying some mailing list meeting some demographic, probably some euphemism for "young, unsophisticated female" which is the main target for this type of scam, and they're blindly sending out common cheap magazines targeted at that profile. For all you know, they may be free publisher samples, and literally costing them nothing, but that's irrelevant.
If you didn't order them, it's illegal for them to demand that you pay for them.
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They know they are playing a game of "chicken", and only win when they find a sucker, so don't be a sucker.
If you didn't order them, it's illegal for them to demand that you pay for them.