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The Super Bowl is the most watched television event in the United States. Its popularity is fueling scams, which come in the following forms… Fake Tickets If you buy off of a site such as Craigslist there is no guarantee that your Super Bowl ticket is authentic. Sites like StubHub, however, guarantee that your ticket is authentic. Counterfeit Memorabilia Fake . . . → Read More: Super Bowl Scam Alert What would you do for an extra $5,000 in your pocket? Scammers are willing to try all sorts of things, including making a detailed report about you through your social media profiles and using that report to try to convince relatives that you are being held hostage and need immediate money. This article details how grandparents . . . → Read More: Grandma Scam Alert The BBB is reporting that the owners of lost pets are being scammed by people claiming to have them. The people who call the phone number assert that they have the pet and demand the money to be wired to them, even before the pet is returned. Some scammers warn that they would hurt the pet . . . → Read More: Lost Pet Scam According to the dictionary a scam is “a dishonest scheme; a fraud.” When you think of scams you usually think of emails from Nigeria and blatant get rich quick schemes. Although these types of scams deceive consumers everyday, much more common are scams which are manipulative and not outright dishonest. Although the creator of a “mild scam” . . . → Read More: Scams Are All Around You You likely log on to your Facebook at least once a day. Wouldn’t it be cool to change the color of Facebook and make it a little more interesting for you? That tinkling interest is exactly what the creators of a recent Facebook scam are banking on. The scam claims that you can change Facebook’s traditional . . . → Read More: Facebook Scam Claims to Turn Facebook Pink, Black, or Red… Are you an American Airlines customer? If so, be aware of messages with the title “Re: Your Flight Order N590.” The message sends you to an online survey from which the scammer makes a profit from them. AA is asking recipients of these messages to send the bogus emails to webmaster@aa.com. According to Spam Fighter, the message . . . → Read More: American Airlines Phishing Scam Many people don’t like change, even if that change is good. Facebook will make its new Timeline mandatory sooner and later and a lot of Facebook users don’t like the new profile. Although you can opt-in and get the Timeline voluntarily, they don’t want the change to become permanent. Scammers are taking advantage of these Timeline critics . . . → Read More: Facebook Deactivate Timeline Scam Have you ever looked at a Facebook phishing scam update and thought to yourself…what’s the point in even writing about this? This is just for stupid people who don’t know any better. The Ponemon Institute and PC Tools conducted a survey, proving that people who are aware of scams are still susceptible to them. In it, . . . → Read More: Are You Too Smart To Be Scammed? Most Facebook scams come in the form of status updates which urge you to check out a sensationalistic looking video. Some people are becoming desensitized Rather than using clickjacking scams with sensationalistic headlines scammers are using more . . . → Read More: Facebook Browser Plug-In Scams The Better Business Bureau is warning of a phishing scam which makes use of its BBB “Start With Trust Logo.” Whatever you do, do not click on any links within the fraudulent emails, which are similar to this one… RE: Case #21838064 2011/12/20 Hello, The Better Business Bureau has been sent the above-referenced complaint from one of . . . → Read More: Another BBB Phishing Scam |
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