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FTC: Fake Subscription Notices for Newspapers
The Federal Trade Commission has charged the operators of dozens of companies with deceiving consumers by using fake newspaper subscription notices. The FTC seeks to stop the operation and obtain money for return to consumers. According to the FTC’s complaint,
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What an IRS Scam Phone Call Sounds Like
Are you receiving strange calls these days requesting personal information and costing you money? Then it might be an IRS phone scam, which sounds a little like this…. RELATED: 6 Things Learned About IRS’s Fight Against Fraud And Identity Theft One clue
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Ex-Students of Trump University Say It Was a Money-Sucking Scam
Former students of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s Trump University say that the millionaire real estate mogul’s college program was a money-sucking scam run by “a bunch of frauds.” According to the New York Daily News, ex-student Robert Guillo, 75,
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Scammers Asking You to Pay Taxes with an iTunes Card
The federal government warned consumers in late April that scammers are singing a new tune when they’re pretending to be from the Internal Revenue Service or U.S. Treasury. Now, some scammers are demanding that you pay your back taxes via an iTunes Gift Card.
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Amazon Liable for Billing Parents for Children’s Unauthorized In-App Charges
The Federal Trade Commission’s request was granted by a federal judge for summary judgment in the agency’s lawsuit against Amazon, Inc., for billing consumers for unauthorized in-app charges incurred by children. The judge’s order in the case finds that Amazon received many complaints from
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FTC Charges Education Lead Generator with Tricking Job Seekers
The agency’s first enforcement action against an education lead generator, operators of Gigats.com have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that the company claimed it was “pre-screening” job applicants for hiring employers when it was actually gathering information for
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Amazon Kindle Scammers Make Big Money From Phony Books
Scam artists are now making thousands of dollars publishing free, fake books that people are tricked into opening but never read. Amazon created Kindle Unlimited, a Netflix for books, that’s delivering indie authors revenue and readers. But it turns out that the
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5 Social Media Scams to Avoid
Scammers have been worming their way into giant social media networks to trick people into giving over their personal and financial information. Over the past year, the number of phishing attempts on social media networks like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and
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6 Things Learned About IRS’s Fight Against Fraud And Identity Theft
Challenging times continue for the IRS. For the last few years, people contacting the IRS have encountered lengthy phone hold times, and identity theft and refund fraud drain billions of dollars’ worth of tax refunds into the pockets of international
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Merchants See Dip in Fraud Thanks to Chip Cards
New chip-enabled cards are flowing into the U.S. marketplace and already made a dent in fraud, with some of the biggest merchants seeing a dip of more than 18% in counterfeit transactions, according to Visa. Among the 25 merchants who
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