With the unemployment rate at a depressing 10%, work from home jobs sound too good to be true. Unfortunately, most of the time they are. The FTC reports that this kind of fraud is on the rise; up from 4,004 in 2006 to 7,955 last year. Scammers are changing the way they advertise these jobs since . . . → Read More: A Warning about Work from Home Job Scams
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Innocent people are now being threatened to be thrown in jail in a new jury duty phone scam. What happens is a crook calls someone and tells them they failed to report to jury duty and are at risk being tossed in the slammer. The person rightfully claims that he or she never received a summons . . . → Read More: Jury Duty Fraud by Phone Thieves are preying on senior citizens with fake $250 Medicare rebates that are said to be sent out soon. Medicare is sending out its own set of rebates with no strings attached, and scammers are counting on the fact that this would cause confusion. The scam artists are manipulating seniors into thinking they are receiving money . . . → Read More: Beware Senior Medicare Scams An credit card scam aimed at U.S. consumers and run by offshore fraudsters has been disrupted by the United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC). The scammers found loopholes in different credit card processing systems that provided them with opportunities to set up fake U.S. companies that then ran upwards of a million phony transactions through legal . . . → Read More: FTC: Scammers Created "Virtual Companies" to Defraud Consumers InventHelp Scam Watch would like to warn our readers that a text message scam involving America’s largest chain retailer, Walmart, has hit consumers across the nation. Scammers have been sending out text messages claiming to be giving out free Walmart gift certificates for a fake "customer appreciation program." The thieves ask for credit card information to . . . → Read More: InventHelp Warns: Look Out for Walmart Scams The Gulf oil spill is about to potentially have another disaster – fraud. The United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is sending out a warning against thieves who are trying to profit off the spill. Criminals are taking advantage of compassionate donators and preventing money from actually helping the devastation. These scam artists pretend to be . . . → Read More: Gulf Oil Spill Charity Scams People all over the world are being targeted in an email scam claiming that they have won millions of dollars in a 2010 FIFA World Cup lottery. These messages usually state that the receiver has won "X" number of dollars and must contact a specific email address to claim the prize. Most of these fraudulent emails . . . → Read More: Internet Scammers Target the World Cup |
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