Consumer Alert: Beware of Tour & Travel "exposés"

A reader wants to know if this is a scam. Here's the answer.

Exposés are articles investigative journalists like me write about bad companies. So when reader Betsy Cohen sent me a postcard she received in the mail inviting her to a "Tour & Travel Exposé," I asked myself the same question she did: Is this a scam?

"We were offered a complimentary three-, five- or seven-night cruise for two adults aboard our choice of major cruise lines and complementary airfare," she told me. "We were given a phone number to call with an RSVP code. It sounded too good to be true."

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