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Fraud Victims Can Get Western Union Wired Money Back
Mainers who were scammed out of money by wiring Western Union payments may be eligible for some restitution, according to Attorney General Janet Mills’ office. It’s illegal for a telemarketer to ask consumers to pay for anything with a money
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Robocall Scam Rings Your Landline
If your home still has a landline phone then prepare yourself for the latest robocall scam. Anyone who still has a traditional home phone dreads the hated robocall. As part of the latest scam, the caller, instead of mentioning who they are,
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Debunked Online Security Breach Myths
Strong passwords will protect you from an online security breach, right? Wrong. The Pew Research came out with a new report including details of American’s biggest misconceptions about cybersecurity. RELATED: Surprising Ways of Stolen Identity Myth 1. Emails are always secure Fewer than half
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Government Grant Scams Target Businesses Social Media
Scammers have several tactics they use, email, online ads and now the rise of social media scams have targeted businesses into government grant scams. If you own a small business, they’re trying to contact you too because lately scams have been going
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Avoid Sports Ticket Fraud
The bracketology is set for college basketball as March Madness is in full court press, unfortunately the fans are the ones playing defense against sports ticket fraud. Representatives from the Better Business Bureau say they see a lot of people
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Mystery Shopper Scam
The mystery shopper scam is one of those scams that victims have been losing money too for quite some time. The scam works like this, first the victim will answer an advertisement or an email to become a “mystery shopper” from
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Identity Theft Ring Cheated Consumers, Businesses $3.5 million
Massive credit card and identity theft ring was busted by cops in Queens, New York. According to authorities the thieves took more than $3.5 million from consumers, banks and retail businesses. The masterminds behind the identity theft and credit card scam
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“Better ingredients, better pizza” was sent too many times to one Papa John’s customer as he is now sending them a message with a texting lawsuit. According to TMZ the customer never signed up for the text messages, however Papa John’s started sending him the
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World’s Biggest Banks Fined Money Laundering
Regulatory failings from money laundering is a situation several global banks have been apart of, and even paid $321 billion in fines since 2008 for to market manipulation and terrorist financing, according to data from Boston Consulting Group. That tally of
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Internet Outage – Amazon Web Services
The internet outage on Tuesday affected several Eastern US users with Amazon Web Services at fault for this technical failure dinging thousands of websites. The failure started around 15 minutes to 10 Tuesday (Feb 28) and ran for about four hours. The
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