Thieves are setting up valid-looking car dealership websites that are advertising "must have" deals. The scammers make their own individual websites based on information from legitimate dealerships. They communicate with victims mostly through email and occasionally phone calls. To buy the car, con artists are asking customers to wire money, sometimes as much as $5,000, as . . . → Read More: Fake "Car Dealerships" Are Taking Victims for a Ride
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Facebook is one of the most popular social networking sites, with over 400 million users worldwide. Scammers are tricking Facebook users who play Zynga games (FarmVille, Mafia Wars, YoVille, etc) into giving out personal information. What happens is a page pops up in the foreground while the original page is dimmed in the background, claiming the . . . → Read More: Facebook Zynga Scams Aren’t Playing Around All across the country, restaurant owners are being warned about con artists posing as health inspectors. These scammers call restaurants posing as health officials to try to get the businesses to schedule inspections of their premises, which never actually take place. The fake inspector calls the restaurant threatening to fine the establishment unless the owner books . . . → Read More: Bogus Health Inspectors Target Restaurants Hopeful Miami job hunters responded to an Internet ad on Craigslist for private security guard positions that paid up to $16 an hour. The resumes were required to be submitted via email. The applications were filled out and copies of W2 forms were given to a receptionist at a rented out downtown Miami office. The applicants . . . → Read More: Miami Craigslist Security Job Scam Many caring hearts are being broken in an online puppy adoption scam. Overseas scammers are running online classified ads and creating breeder websites offering expensive purebred puppies – typically English bulldogs or Yorkshire terriers – for free or at a discounted price. The scam artists will then ask interested buyers to pay for the dog’s shipment, . . . → Read More: Avoid Pet Adoption Scams Continuing our goal of spreading scam awareness via social media, the InventHelp Scam team recently created its own Youtube channel. We will occasionally upload and "like" (i.e. vote for/favorite) videos that expose scams from all sorts of industries. We’ve already posted our first video – which is embedded below – that describes steps inventors should take . . . → Read More: InventHelp Scam Watch Is on YouTube! In the United States, a car is ripped off every 26 seconds. Reports of these automotive rip-offs are so commonplace that many InventHelp inventors have designed new inventions to try to counter this disturbing scam. Using innovation as their weapon of choice, InventHelp clients are doing their part to prevent vehicle rip-offs and vandalism. One InventHelp inventor . . . → Read More: InventHelp Scam Watch: Inventors Counter Vehicle Rip-Off Trends Investigative Programs Cyber Investigations has received reports of a social engineering scam aimed at swindling consumers out of thousands of dollars. Hackers who have accessed social networking accounts use the victims’ contact lists to send out claims that they are stranded in a foreign country and need money. With promise of reimbursement upon their return and an . . . → Read More: Scammers Utilize Urgency and Desperation in New E-Scams Scam artists are constantly attempting new and intriguing ways to cheat consumers. Whether it’s a sweepstakes you won without entering or a free government grant you never applied for, there are myriad ways that we are exposed to scams on a daily basis. The constant advances in technology have made it increasingly difficult to avoid would-be scammers . . . → Read More: Independence (from Scam Artists) Day! |
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