Tag "Online scam"
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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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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Top 5 Veteran Scams
Besides elderly fraud, scams targeting veterans are really the tip of the iceberg. Men and women who have proudly served our country are constant targets for scam artists. Swindlers target vets because they know they are drawing guaranteed benefits. While
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Suspected Online Scam
Recently a Flagstaff man reported a suspected con involving an online truck ad. According to the police report, the man contacted the Flagstaff Police Department at about 4:30 p.m. Nov. 3 claiming he had been scammed. He told officers he
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Prevent Electronic Money Scams
The majority of people work hard for their money, and believe it or not fraudsters are also busy creating new ways of tricking the unsuspecting banking public into divulging critical financial details so that they can eventually steal from them.
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Fake Job Ads on Government Website JobActive End In Laundering Money
Fake jobs are being offered by criminals on the Australian website JobActive, tricking users into handing over their personal bank account details. JobActive is a job search portal run by the Department of Employment, and has about 275,000 registered users.
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FTC Adds Defendants to Charges in Ongoing Tech Support Scam Case
Three new defendants were added to the Federal Trade Commission in an ongoing case against a tech support scam. The scheme allegedly bilked consumers out of tens of millions of dollars by pretending to represent Microsoft, Apple, and other major
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Cyber Scam on Spear-Phishing
Spear-phishing is one of the latest ways for cyber-criminals to get all your information, by simply reeling your information as bait. According to the Better Business Bureau, cyber scammers have learned that emails are the best way to gather case
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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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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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