Category: Scams
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Digital printers let counterfeiters operate with ease
originally published in ConsumerAffairs Last October, the Federal Reserve started shipping the first batches of its new, improved and hopefully difficult-to-counterfeit $100 bill. At the time, it was understood that this was directed primarily at international counterfeiters, since the American $100 bill is one of the most common counterfeit notes on the worldwide market. By…
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The Walmart MoneyCard hacker strikes again: Cardholders from across the U.S. see their hacked cards drained at NYC Target stores
originally published at ConsumerAffairs UPDATE, Oct. 15: Walmart and Green Dot have responded; their statements are at the end of this article. Something criminally strange seems to be going on with Walmart MoneyCards, especially in New York City and its immediate suburbs, though any MoneyCard holder in America is apparently at risk. Ever since September 2013,…
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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…
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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…
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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”…
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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…