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CONTRACTOR FRAUD & SCAMS
Beware of door-to-door contractors knocking on your door trying to talk you into repair or cleanup jobs. Also, beware of out of town contractors that call you at home with too good to be true low cos…
Published on 6 years, 7 months ago
SOCIAL SECURITY HORROR SCAMS
Two different incidents last week where crooks stole social security numbers from private medical records and were able to steal two different people out of their entire life's savings bank accounts.
Published on 6 years, 7 months ago
ROBOCALLER IMPOSTOR SCAMS
Be on guard against Robo Calls that are Impostor Scams that pretend to be the IRS, police, utilities, and other entities trying to pressure you into acting too quickly to resolve some threat they mak…
Published on 6 years, 8 months ago
VERY COMPLEX IRS SCAMS
There are so many IRS scams today, mostly because it is so easy to hack into tax preparation services computers and steal sensitive data on you. Expert Laurel Sykes tells Patti and the rest of us ab…
Published on 6 years, 8 months ago
LOTTERY SCAM AND EXTORTION
Telephone scammer picks the wrong victim, a former CIA and FBI dept head, and gets extradited and a lengthy prison sentence
Published on 6 years, 9 months ago
UTILITY BILL SCAM
Beware of calls from fake utility collections reps. Crooks saying that you haven't paid your utility bill will try to get you to send them money asap under the threat of cutting off your utilities. …
Published on 6 years, 9 months ago
FAKE RENTAL SCAM
Beware of unrealistic low priced rental ads you see on Craigslist and other scam plagued housing rental sites. Chances are a crook who are not the real landlords are trying to get you to send money t…
Published on 6 years, 9 months ago
TAX RETURN THEFT
We have been seeing an increase in tax return theft where the crooks steal your identity to file early in your name and steal your tax return money before you probably have a chance to file your retu…
Published on 6 years, 10 months ago
THE MONEY MULE
Crooks are always looking to make friends with goodhearted, innocent people so that they can trick them into being a money mule who will unknowingly launder thousands of dollars of illegally obtained…
Published on 6 years, 10 months ago
FAKE SOCIAL SECURITY OFFICE SCAM
Well selected and trained scammers operating out of India were arrested for running a phony Social Security office scam. The scammers were selected and trained to have little or no foreign accents an…
Published on 6 years, 11 months ago