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Uber Company Pays $20M Settlement
The Federal Trade Commission recently announced Uber, the growing transportation company, is to pay $20 million in settlement charges. These charges include a statement reading, “it misled prospective drivers with exaggerated earning claims and claims about [vehicle] financing”. RELATED: 2017 Top 5
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Avoid Becoming Tax Return Fraud Victim
IRS is delaying some refunds this year due to the hike in fraud. So, if you are one of the millions of people filing early and claiming either an earned income tax credit or an additional child tax credit you’re
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2017 Top 5 Scams
New year, but the same old scams, however in 2017 expect these types of scams to be on the rise unless you take precautions to protect your money and identity with advice from Heather Wagenhals, Certified Identity Theft Risk Management Specialist. Here
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Social Media Fingerprint Fraud
Social media fraud is out again, but this time fraudsters are taking one’s identity and hacking into bank accounts from the tips of your fingers, literally. So the next time you throw up that peace sign and post it all
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Yahoo Customer Service Scam
Trying to contact Yahoo customer care? There are a few ways to do so — but, Yahoo warns that phone is not an option. That’s right: any phone number you come across in an internet search, claiming to connect you with
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Amazon Scams Continue
Amazon had quite the Holiday’s, with all of the email scams and negative feedback, they still came out having the best holiday ever! The author of Ghost Cities of China, experienced this with Amazon firsthand. He shares this awful experience of Amazon scams and customer service with
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Prevent 2017 Tax Scams
April 15th, 2017 is right around the corner and even though you might not be ready to pay your taxes, con artists are ready to take your money with the following tax scams. Tax scams that come in several different forms, but
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ATM Chip-and-Pin Card Hack
The Chip-and-PIN cards are just as easy to clone as magnetic stripe cards. It took researchers just a simple chip and pin hack to withdraw up to $50,000 in cash from an ATM in America in under 15 minutes. RELATED: Largest
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Largest Consumer Scams of 2016
The number one scam of 2016 goes to con artists posing as IRS agents and threatening to fine or arrest consumers over phony tax debts. In fact, this scam came in having roughly one of every four consumer complaint reports to the
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How Crooks Drain Money Off Your Gift Cards
Gift cards make great holiday gifts for people of all ages, in according to a National Retail Federation survey of 7,200 consumers, 56 percent of respondents have gift cards on their Christmas shopping list. Retailers expect to sell more than $27 billion worth
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