Scams

  • Let Off Some Steam over Telemarketers
    Fight back and end the calls!
    You need an outlet for your venting, and you need it bad. A Web site lists millions of numbers that have given consumers headaches—and lets you register your complaints about them.
  • A Twist on the Classic Nigerian Scam
    The con that never dies
    A classic Nigerian scam tries to sound real by linking itself to a charitable organization run by parent volunteers.
  • FDA Impersonators Targeting Consumers
    Scam may originate in Dominican Republic
    Calls entice consumers to purchase discounted prescription drugs by wiring funds to one of several locations in the Dominican Republic. No medications are ever delivered.
  • Have Laptop, Will Travel
    If you’re traveling with a laptop, you need to develop a plan to safeguard your equipment and the vital information it contains.
  • STOP! Don’t Be a Victim of Identity Theft
    By the time you finish reading this story, another 100 American identities will be stolen.
  • Report Quantifies Elder Abuse
    Thirteen percent of older Americans are suffering from verbal, financial, or physical mistreatment.
  • “Dark Market” of Cyber Criminals Exposed
    FBI sting leads to arrest of 56 cyber criminals
    You know those cyber crimes we’ve been warning you about? It seems a lot of those thieves thought they had found a safe online haven to interact with one another.
  • Guardianship Gone Bad
    “Isolate. Medicate. Take the estate.”
    With virtually no oversight by the courts that recommended them, guardians can become abusive, as families of the elderly all over the country have learned. Caught in the middle is the elderly ward who was supposed to be protected but has now become invisible.
  • World’s Largest “Spam Gang” Halted
    The FTC stops a spam network that generated 3 million complaints
    A U.S. district court ordered a halt to the operations of a vast international spam network that peddled prescription drugs, a bogus male enhancement pill, and a weight loss pill, according to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).
  • Email Isn’t Really from the FBI
    No, the FBI isn’t offering you money
    The FBI wants you to know that if you get an email claiming to be from FBI Deputy Director John S. Pistole, it didn’t really come from him.
  • Emails Tied to Banking Woes Not What They Seem
    Online scammers take advantage of tough economic times
    The FTC says scammers are taking advantage of upheavals in the financial marketplace by sending out fraudulent emails that look like they come from a legitimate company that may have recently acquired your bank, savings and loan, or mortgage.
  • You’re a Target for Scams
    The FBI devotes a lot of Web space to creating awareness about con artists targeting senior citizens. The possibility that you'll be a scam victim might not be as remote as you think.
  • Gas Pumps Targeted for ATM Theft
    If you pay at the pump, you may want to think twice before using your debit card. Thefts involving card-skimming devices are being investigated in five states.
  • More Reasons to Protect Your Computer
    You may never know if a bot has been unleashed
    The word bot might sound meaningless, but it’s being called the Internet’s fastest-growing cyber crime—one that 71% of consumers don’t know anything about, according to the National Cyber Security Alliance.
  • The Blah, Blah, Blah of Email Scams
    More on those tedious email swindles
    On and on they ramble, stringing together some of the (grammatically) worst sentences you’ll ever read. We’re just checking: You don’t really think you’ve won foreign money, do you?
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