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Jobseekers beware: don’t fall prey to this advance fee scam

Originally published on ConsumerAffairs If you’re looking for work in this economy you know you must be careful, because there exist plenty of scammers, thieves, and con artists using fake job offers or help-wanted postings as bait to hook new victims. A California man named Ryan recently wrote us about a close call he had when […]

The “Car-Wrap” payment scam: an old form of fraud that refuses to die

Originally published on ConsumerAffairs Yesterday I got an email from a friend offering an amazingly lucrative part-time job opportunity (and who couldn’t use extra money in this economy?) — $350 per week, and all I have to do is let an energy-drink company put advertising decals on my car! Unless I don’t have a car, in […]

Scam alert: Virgin Airlines is not giving away a year’s worth of free flights on Facebook

 Originally published on ConsumerAffairs If you’ve been on Facebook over the long holiday weekend, you might’ve seen posts promising 500 lucky people the chance to win a year’s worth of free flights on Virgin Airlines — and for a chance to win, all you have to do is “like” a certain Facebook page and “share” […]

Like-farming Facebook scams: look before you “like”

Originally published in ConsumerAffairs If you’re a regular Facebook user, you’re pretty much guaranteed to run across lots of “like-farming” scammers – maybe without ever even realizing it. At best, these like-farming pages clutter your friends’ feeds, crowding out content they actually want to see (and possibly making them annoyed with you, for drowning their […]

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