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A Debt Collector Keeps Calling Me From 212-500-0839 And Says I’ll Be Arrested. – Lavern
“Dear Steve,
What should I do if a collection company won’t give me their address? The guy that called was Jeff Parker (212) 500-0839.
The message he left was that there were papers filed under my SS# at the New York City court and I needed to contact them right away. He first told me [...]
Boca Raton 34-year-old charged with mortgage scam has to give up Rolls … – Palm Beach Interactive
A U.S. Secret Service investigation into an alleged mortgage scam run by a 34-year-old Boca Raton man has led to his arrest and seizure of assets including a Rolls Royce Phantom, Lamborghini, Ferrari and 42-foot Fountain racing boat. Jason Vitulano …
What Makes A Person Good Scam Bait?
We all like to think we’re basically scam-proof, and that reason and skepticism will protect us from even the most talented hustlers. More likely, we just haven’t encountered those hustlers yet. In this report from the University of Cambridge, the authors review a series of short cons run by pros on the UK series The Real Hustle , then they summarize what they believe are seven principles of human behavior that work against you when you’re being targeted in a scam. Distraction – When we’re distracted, you miss important cues
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Ohio warns of text message unemployment scam – Middletown Journal
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Authorities say a text message scam is targeting Ohioans who receive unemployment benefits. Attorney General Richard Cordray said Wednesday that people are receiving fraudulent text messages on their cell phones that claim to be …
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Google Sues Make Money With Google Scams – Searchnewz.com
In the Finally! department, Google is taking legal action against advertisers who used Googles name and logos to promote their get-rich-quick scams. The Make Money on Google ads were rampant in both search and display advertising in the first half of …
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Crooks pitch World Cup scams after group draw – The Register
Cybercrooks have begun punting World Cup ticket and HD TV viewing scams as a successor to earlier lottery-based cons. The revision of earlier fraud follows the final draw for the 2010 World Cup last Friday. Now, in addition to the opportunity to …
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Before donating, check out charities – Villages Daily Sun
THE VILLAGES — Villagers are reminded to be cautious about donating to charities during the holiday season. Stephen Renico, deputy regional director of Seniors vs. Crime, said he has not heard of any specific charity- or nonprofit-related scams …
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A phone book could be safer’ – New Haven Register
SAN FRANCISCO — Even search engines can get suckered by Internet scams. With a little sleight of hand, con artists can dupe them into giving top billing to fraudulent Web sites that prey on consumers, making unwitting accomplices of companies such …
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TECH: Local researcher finds search engines also fall prey to Web … – North County Times
LA MESA —- Even search engines can get suckered by Internet scams. With a little sleight of hand, con artists can dupe them into giving top billing to fraudulent Web sites that prey on consumers, making unwitting accomplices of companies such as …
Study reveals search engines also targeted by Internet scams – Lubbock Avalanche-Journal
SAN FRANCISCO – Even search engines can get suckered by Internet scams. With a little sleight of hand, con artists can dupe them into giving top billing to fraudulent Web sites that prey on consumers, making unwitting accomplices of companies such as …
Methuen man target of check scam – Eagle-Tribune
METHUEN — Even celebrities are not immune to check scams, just ask Methuen’s own Jerry Valley, a famous hypnotist. Valley, 74, said he was trying to sell a Go-Go Electric Scooter for the handicapped on Craigslist, and thought he had a buyer. A man …
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How fake sites trick search engines to hit the top – Quad-Cities Times
SAN FRANCISCO – Even search engines can get suckered by Internet scams. With a little sleight of hand, con artists can dupe them into giving top billing to fraudulent Web sites that prey on consumers, making unwitting accomplices of companies such …
How fake web sites trick search engines – AZCentral.com
SAN FRANCISCO – Even search engines can get suckered by Internet scams. With a little sleight of hand, con artists can dupe them into giving top billing to fraudulent Web sites that prey on consumers, making unwitting accomplices of companies such as …
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Experiment Shows Search Engines Are Easily Fooled – The Ledger
Security researcher Jim Stickley displays logs on his laptop from Internet scams he created for a study for a California financial institution at his home in La Mesa, Calif., Monday Dec. 7, 2009. Stickley’s study showed some of the most trusted …
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Elderly most sensitive to financial fraud – Times Colonist
Of all acts of violence seniors face, from physical to psychological, the most prevalent by far is financial abuse. Ranging from theft and embezzlement to fraudulent powers of attorney and mass-marketing scams, close to 60 per cent of reported cases …
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Google sues local company over work-at-home scam – ksl.com
SALT LAKE CITY — Google has filed a federal lawsuit against a Salt Lake City tech firm, accusing it of perpetrating work-at-home scams under the search engine’s name. The lawsuit , filed Monday in Utah, claims Pacific WebWorks sells various “Google …
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Google Sues to Stop Work-From-Home Scams – ABC News
Google has launched a legal battle against companies that allegedly infringe upon the Google name to promote “work-from-home” scams. Google has filed a lawsuit to stop alleged scammers from using its name for work-from-home schemes. (ABC News Photo …
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PayPal Abandons Another Scammed Seller
Todd got ripped off by a scammer on an eBay purchase. He made sure to insure the device before shipping it off via the United States Postal Service, but it turns out that an insurance claim won’t help him get PayPal to step up. So I had a old Palm TX that I did not use anymore and thought if I could get $150 for it I would be happy. I sold it on eBay, and I sent out the item via USPS and insured it for $300. It was shipped on 10/28/09 and I emailed the buyer that info.
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Google: Online Scammers Using Our Name – CBS News
Victims fall for the Google name and logo at holiday time when online scams are all over the internet, Kelly Wallace reports. (CBS) Internet giant Google is targeting online scammers it says are fraudulently using the widely-known Google name and …
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C. Ogle – Consumerist.com
I thought my family was pretty savvy on avoiding internet scams, until one day I came home from work and my little girl said “Daddy, Daddy, I won a $1,000 Walmart Gift card from a popup on the internet”. I said, “That’s a scam, just close the window …
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Texas Attorney General Shuts Down Dishonest Price Comparison Sites
ConsumerAffairs.com says that the Texas Attorney General has gone after a couple of online price comparison companies. The sites all claim to offer unbiased comparisons of retailers, but in reality the companies have been accepting payments in exchange for preferential listings. The companies, Intercept LLC and Everyprice.com Inc, both operated multiple sites with names like Flyingprices, Diduprice, and Lowpricedigital.
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Help Your Friends Avoid Online Scams While Insulting Them
Lifehacker has put together a nice guide to avoiding on-line scams that you could share with those people you felt were likely to fall for them — if Lifehacker didn’t make it so obviously insulting by titling it “The Complete Guide to Avoiding Online Scams (for Your Less Savvy Friends and Relatives).” If they read our email box they would know that really intelligent, lovely people fall for online scams — even the sort of people who read Lifehacker… and Consumerist. Those people are then brave enough to say, “Hey, I fell for this, and I’d like to help stop others from doing the same.” Despite the unfortunate title, however, the advice is helpful. Have a look. How do you help people avoid scams
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China Warns of Skype Phishing, Shuts Offending Domain – CIO
Mon, December 07, 2009 — IDG News Service — China’s cyberthreat response group Monday warned local Skype users about phishing scams being carried out through the chat program, in a show of ongoing efforts to counter phishing in the country. Many …
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Don’t Get Madoffed – A Consumer’s Guide to Avoiding Investment Scams – Earthtimes
The Bernie Madoff story made it to the mainstream press due to the magnitude of the scam ” stated James A. Daniel, CFP® “Unfortunately, the bigger problem is that Investment Scams like this are uncovered almost each week, but because they are …
BBB’s top 10 scams of 2009 – TMCnet
Dec 07, 2009 (http://www.freeshipping.org/blog/ – McClatchy-Tribune News Service via COMTEX) — Online scams, email scams, pop-up scams…scam, scam, scam, scam! Call them what you will but the invention of the Internet has created an easy and …
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Insurance scam exists in the form of Medicare – Free Lance-Star
Talk about health insurance scams. Much of the health care uproar has been to counteract the reported claim that insurance companies change the insurance coverage when the insured person’s claims become too costly. What if a person paid premiums of …
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Scammers find new ways to get information – Chillico Gazette
The Ohio Attorney General’s office is warning residents that phone calls about jury duty or paralyzed veterans may well be scams. The Supreme Court of Ohio joined the AG’s office in the warning about the jury duty scam that seems to resurface …
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Frightening Calls From Fake Debt Collectors Threaten People With Jail for Payday Loans. It’s a Scam.
Phony debt collectors with Indian accents are calling people trying to scare them into paying debts that are not theirs. Some of the company names they use are American Credit Services, TAC Evolution, Allied Financial Services, CashNetUSA, Sonic Bank, Sonic CashNet, CashLand, and Cash America. If you know of others, please add them in the [...]
Holiday scams can ruin festivities – TMCnet
Gift card scams An interesting scam shoppers need to be aware of involves purchasing gift cards that scam artists already have memorized the numbers on the face of the card while still in the store. Find Solutions for Enterprises, SMBs & Service …
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Scams run by incompetent thieves – Allentown Morning Call
The scam: We don’t pay much attention to the never-ending flood of ridiculous Nigerian e-mail scams anymore. We hope that even infrequent readers of We’ve Got Your Back know that these messages are bogus with a capital B. Still, every now and then …
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Health reform supporter is way off base – Morris County Daily Record
Mildred Blackwell’s letter typifies how scams succeed when perceived self-interest prevents rational investigation. The proposed health plans are true scams that make Bernie Madoff look amateurish. Being on Medicare, I follow healthcare issues …
Email Scam Asks for H1N1 Profile at CDC.gov – MyFox Spokane
ST. PAUL, Minn. – The Minnesota Department of Health is warning of a fraudulent emails about a CDC sponsored state vaccination program. The CDC has received reports of email phishing scams referencing state sponsored vaccination programs, but the …
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H1N1 Phishing Email Making The Rounds
The Centers for Disease Control have issued a warning that there’s a new, swine flu-themed phishing email going around. It says something about an imaginary State Vaccination H1N1 Program, and asks you to create an account on the cdc.gov website–and if you click the link, malicious code may be installed on your system. Obviously you have brain worms if you fall for this. “Fraudulent emails referencing CDC-sponsored State Vaccination Program” [CDC]
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Year’s top scams – Pueblo Chieftain
The pressure to find jobs and money left people open for more schemes this year, according to the Better Business Bureau of Southern Colorado. The consumer group this week released its 2009 list of top scams in Southern Colorado, based on the BBB’s …
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Arizona, feds target home loan schemes – AZCentral.com
Arizona’s top prosecutor is partnering with federal regulators to stop more loan-modification scams aimed at struggling homeowners. Attorney General Terry Goddard said his office and federal prosecutors plan to work together to go after the firms …
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Consumers Warned Of Text Message, Phone Scams – WBNS 10TV Columbus
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Consumers were being warned Thursday to be on the lookout for text message and phone scams which appear to be coming from legitimate sources, 10TV News reported. Over the past two days, 10TV viewers have reported getting text …
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You Are Here: From the FTC for Your Kids – Wired News
We’re from the government. We’re here to help. The Federal Trade Commission has launched a new site designed to help kids learn to protect their privacy, spot frauds and scams, and avoid identity theft. You Are Here is set up as a virtual mall. I …
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H1N1: "Phishing" scam emerges in wake of H1N1 vaccination push – Daily Press
Newport News — Reports of “phishing” scams referencing state vaccination programs have surfaced locally, said Larry Hill, spokesman for the Virginia Department of Health. The scam involves an e-mail that says people over 18 must create a personal …
Beware of H1N1 ‘phishing’ scam – Daily Press
Newport News – Reports of “phishing” scams referencing state vaccination programs have surfaced locally, said Larry Hill, spokesman for the Virginia Department of Health. The scam involves an e-mail that says people over 18 must create a personal …
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Radio Shack Responds To Livestrong Scandal
Good news for anyone who has accidentally donated a dollar to Livestrong while making a purchase at Radio Shack — the company is willing to give you your money back. The company sent us this statement to address the problem and solution: Tens of thousands of customers have eagerly contributed to our point-of-sale collection for LIVESTRONG in just the first few weeks. As 100% of every $1 point-of-sale donation goes directly to LIVESTRONG, we believe it’s been tremendously successful so far. But RadioShack doesn’t intend for any customer to feel compelled to support the fight against cancer.
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