Extended Auto Warranty Scam Squashed
Scammers fined, barred from telemarketing and warranty sales.
Scams
FCC Acts to Block Robotext Scams
New federal rules will require wireless providers to block texts from numbers likely to be spoofed or hijacked.
How Credit Cards Get Cloned Without You Realizing It
When you are at an ATM don't let anyone get close to you.
Consumers Lost $8.8 Billion to Fraud Last Year
Investment fraud topped the list of scams reported to the feds in 2022.
The Lies Romance Scammers Tell
They're not little white lies. The lies that romance scammers tell their victims are big, ugly and expensive. The Federal Trade Commission estimates that in 2022 alone, 70,000 consumers lost $1.3 billion to romance scammers.
The FTC extracted those estimates from their new data spotlight, which found that
Four Red Flags that Spell 'Scam'
Fraudulent schemes directed at consumers, known popularly as “scams,” seem to increase every year. In the first half of 2022 the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) received 793,000 complaints about scams, with about 27% resulting in financial losses of $3.56 billion.
Trying to warn consumers about every scam is
Fake Government Web Sites Charge Big Bucks for Bogus Info
Whatever you may think of complaints about supposedly “fake news,” there’s no arguing that fake government websites defraud consumers to the tune of millions of dollars and, in the process, often steal vital personal data while dispensing bogus information.
Take the case of On Point Global, recently ordered to