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FTC Cracks Down On Bogus Mortgage Relief Lawsuits
If you live in an area hit hard by the collapse of the housing market, you might have received a letter from a company promising that if you join other struggling homeowners in filing lawsuits against...
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Company Behind Billions Of Phony "Auto Warranty" Robocalls Shut Down By FTC
Have you ever answered a call from an unfamiliar number only to hear a recording tell you there is important information about your automobile warranty? You’re not alone, as the folks at the FTC have...
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No, Microsoft Techs Are Not Proactively Calling You About Your Error Messages
Software crashes. And sometimes when it does, you get the option of sending an error report to the developer. You’ll never hear back, because that’s not the purpose of the report. But that hasn’t...
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FTC Warns About Scam Tied To Affordable Care Act
It’s barely been two weeks since the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the most controversial portion of the Affordable Care Act, and scammers have already been busy on the phone trying to steal folks’ money...
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Thousands Of NJ Residents Don’t Realize They Were Scammed, Pass Scam On To...
We recently told you about scammers tricking consumers into sharing sensitive information by telling them a federal stimulus plan will pay their power bill for a month; they just need your SSN and bank...
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FTC Warns Against Scammers Pretending To Be From The FTC
While the Federal Trade Commission is working to protect American consumers from scam artists, badvertisers, robocallers, and other unseemly types, the agency is not handing out $250,000 sweepstakes...
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Scammers Find New Favorite Target: Lawyers
Lest you think that the only people being taken in by apparently obvious scams are naive rubes, it looks like lots of people with fancy law degrees are being scammed by letting their avarice get the...
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5 Warning Signs That A Craigslist Rental Listing Is Probably A Scam
Just like many things in life, if a rental property sounds too good to be true, it probably is.Even though it’s nothing new, we’ve recently started seeing a resurgence of reader e-mails asking if a...
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Walmart Worker Stops Woman From Wiring $2,100 To Fake Stranded Grandson
(geatchy) With all the news of scammers out there stealing money from unsuspecting folks using the lowdown, dirty “Help, I’m your grandson/niece/other close family relative!” act, our hearts are warmed...
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Feds Shut Down Telemarketing Scam Aimed At Elderly
(Peeping Dragon)It’s bad enough to call up an elderly person and mislead him or her into paying a pile of cash for a medical alert service they don’t need or want. But what takes one Brooklyn-based...
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No, You Didn’t Earn Two Free Travel Vouchers From ‘United Airways’
For at least the last year, something calling itself ‘United Airways’ — which is the name of a regional carrier in Asia that has nothing to do with this story — has been sending out versions of the...
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Bogus Weight-Loss Products, Fraudulent Prizes Top List Of Biggest Scams
(Studio d’Xavier) More than 1-in-10 American adults fall victim to some sort of fraud, according to a new report from the Federal Trade Commission. And scams related to fraudulent weight-loss products...
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No, You Did Not Randomly Win A Vacation From Travelocity
Remember when we told you about the scammers out to trick people into thinking they’d won travel vouchers from the nonexistent (at least in the U.S.) United Airways? Since then we’ve heard of two...
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NY Shuts Down Sham Fundraising Company That Took In Millions Of Donations For...
Campaign Center, Inc. was the principal fundraiser for Coalition Against Breast Cancer, which spent virtually no money on research, education or prevention.Between 2005 and 2011, the Coalition Against...
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New York Warns Of Medical-Alert Device Robocalling Scam Targeting Seniors
(Jenn and Tony Bot)Most of you know to be suspicious when someone calls out of the blue to tell you you’ve been approved to get something for free. But not everyone is as savvy as y’all, which is what...
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Banker Accused Of Stealing $2 Million From Elderly Customers — At Two...
(NYCandre)Remember that Wells Fargo employee charged with defrauding a 90-year-old customer out of $10,000? That’s amateur hour compared to the Oakland woman accused of not only stealing around $2...
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Jersey Shore Landlord Caught Renting Out Uninhabitable Properties And Homes...
(ktorster)The New Jersey coastline can be a goldmine for owners of rental properties, as vacationers flock to the Atlantic Ocean every summer looking to rent for anything from a few days to the entire...
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Scammer Uses Counterfeit Cash To Buy Motorcycle, Calls Victim To Warn Against...
(KTVI-TV)Most people who end up with a wad of counterfeit cash don’t find out until they take it to the bank or try to use it at a store that checks for funny money, but a woman in the St. Louis area...
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It’s Completely Legal To Spoof Phone Numbers
(chrismaverick)At some point in your life, you’ve probably received a call where the name and/or number that showed up on caller ID was not the actual name/number of the caller. It’s known as spoofing,...
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Feds And Colleges Now Blacklisting Student-Aid Scammers
(afagen)More than 12 million U.S. college students applied for federal aid for the school year starting this fall, but around 126,000 of these applicants have been flagged by schools and the government...
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