A Council Bluffs man said a young lady claiming to be a UNO student tried to sell him magazines last night. UNO's head of security says he's glad the man didn't fall for it. It's a scam.

Joel Pick said she showed up on his door step about eight in the evening.

Pick says, "She had a card. She said she was a student with UNO and she wanted to know if I was interested in what she was doing."

Over the course of their conversation she told Pick she was selling magazines and DVDs.

Pick got suspicious because the young lady told him she had been in the marines, yet didn't know much about the military. Pick's older brother is a veteran. She also claimed to live in his Council Bluffs neighborhood, yet Pick didn't recognize her.

More red flags went up when Pick realized she was with a man in an older green van with Nebraska plates. Pick's brother had cash, but she didn't want it. Joel Pick says he explained to the woman he was between banks and did not have and active account, but she still wanted a check. Pick told her, "I don't have a checking account right now. And she said well, do you have any of the old checks?" "I said, tomorrow I can get down to the bank, but by that time she was obviously pretty mad at me," Pick says.

Paul Kosel, who heads up security at the University of Nebraska Omaha, says the university has never sanctioned any door to door sales. "The first thing that jumps into my mind is identity theft or trying to get money out of a checking account," Kosel said.

Pick says the pair got angry with one another and drove away. He called his children into the house and shut the door. Kosel says that's a good idea. He says people coming in contact with the pair may also want to contact police.