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According to the Federal Trade Commission, small businesses should be on the lookout for phony invoices and unordered merchandise. Scammers send out fake invoices and hope businesses won't notice ...
It's a story that's becoming increasingly too common. A 60-year-old warehouse worker named Renato Calalang received an email notification informing him that a distant relative, a cousin in ...
Not All Checkout Line Money Traps Are Scams. Grocery stores made an art out of parting shoppers from their money at the checkout line long before scammers decided to get in on the action. Julie ...
• Fake email addresses - Malicious actors sometimes send from email addresses made to look like an official email address but in fact is missing a letter(s), misspelled, replaces a letter with a lookalike number (e.g. “O” and “0”), or originates from free email services that would not be used for official communications.
Get-rich-quick schemes. Get-rich-quick schemes are extremely varied; these include fake franchises, real estate "sure things", get-rich-quick books, wealth-building seminars, self-help gurus, sure-fire inventions, useless products, chain letters, fortune tellers, quack doctors, miracle pharmaceuticals, foreign exchange fraud, Nigerian money scams, fraudulent treasure hunts, and charms and ...
An overpayment scam, also known as a refund scam, is a type of confidence trick designed to prey upon victims' good faith. In the most basic form, an overpayment scam consists of a scammer claiming, falsely, to have sent a victim an excess amount of money. The scammer then attempts to convince the victim to return the difference between the ...
A domain name scam is a type of intellectual property scan or confidence scam in which unscrupulous domain name registrars attempt to generate revenue by tricking businesses into buying, selling, listing or converting a domain name. The Office of Fair Trading in the United Kingdom has outlined two types of domain name scams which are "Domain ...
July 21, 2022 at 1:08 PM. Kameleon007 / Getty Images/iStockphoto. The latest scam is claiming that adults over the age of 51 can get a spending card through certain government programs. However ...