Fraud Report – Postal Service Warns Telemarketing Fraud Scam With scam calls bombarding the United States from abroad and identity theft on the rise, the United States Postal Service has taken the unusual step of mailing a warning brochure to every single home in the nation. Last week, ABC News reported on an unprecedented telemarketing [...]
A Wasatch County woman who prosecutors said bilked thousands of dollars from a couple by posing as a wedding planner in the Park City area pleaded guilty Monday to several felony charges in 2 separate fraud scam cases. Tania Clark, 37, entered the pleas in 3rd District Court after prosecutors agreed to waive several of [...]
Many of the most popular Facebook applications, or “apps,” on the social networking site have been transmitting identifying information—in effect, providing access to people’s names and, in some cases, their friends’ names—to dozens of advertising and Internet tracking companies. The issue affects tens of millions of Facebook app users, including people who set their profiles [...]
Fraudsters are hijacking Facebook accounts to send bogus “invites” to win an Apple iPad. But the only thing that will earn you is an scam invitation to be harassed by spammers and telemarketers. Today, I received an invitation to an “Free! iPad! Event!” allegedly from someone in my Facebook friends list. That Facebook invite links [...]
More and more iTunes users have been reporting fraud activity on their Apple iTune accounts, reporting hundreds or even thousands of dollars worth of bogus purchases. With the reports of this type of fraud on the uptick in recent weeks, many users have been quick to blame Apple or PayPal, since many of the affected [...]
New data suggests that mortgage fraud – which got tougher to scam consumers after the collapse of the U.S. real estate market is returning in a big way. Data prepared for The Wall Street Journal by research firm CoreLogic, examining about seven million home loans made by hundreds of lenders, show that losses from mortgage [...]
With the economic downturn many people have seen their finances and credit scores go south. A poor credit score can make it hard to rent an apartment or do any number of things essential to daily living. So an online advertisement offering a credit protection number (CPN) to clean up your credit score may sound [...]
A “Dislike” button is the latest in a string of fraud scams circulating on the social networking site. It purports to offer users a way to express their aversion to links, videos and other annoying content posted by friends on Facebook, as an alternative to giving a thumbs up with Facebook’s “Like” button. To get [...]
Hundreds of online businesses are finding inactive Social Security numbers online –most of which are assigned to children under 18 who have not started using them – and selling them under different names to help people establish fake credit. The scheme may lead to significant debts that might be almost impossible to pay off. Which [...]
Hawaiian Airlines warned consumers on Thursday about fraudulent vouchers being sold on Craigslist and 808 Classifieds that were purchased using stolen credit cards. “We want to alert consumers to this scam because we’ve become aware of someone selling travel vouchers and using other people’s credit card information to book tickets on Hawaiian and other carriers [...]
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