A woman in Texas has fallen victim to a classic lottery scam. I don’t know why so many scams like this seem to be coming out of Canada lately, but I am seeing lots of reports like this.
The woman received a letter back in April reporting that she had won a $125,000 sweepstakes. At this [...]

This is certainly not the first time something like this has happened but it has become so irritating that I wanted to say something about it.
To answer my own question from above, yes I hate spam. I have always hated spam and I hate it more than you can imagine.
The issue here is not the [...]

A TV station in Kentucky is reporting on a new scam that involves phone calls to taxpayers from someone claiming to be from the “Tax Refund Department” and informing them that they are entitled to a large tax refund.
The scam artist goes for the kill by informing the intended victim that they must provide their [...]

That’s quite a title, huh? Well, if fax spam wasn’t enough to anger business owners, how about a spam fax that is nothing but an effort to scam you?
The FBI has issued a warning to businesses about a scam that involves faxing an offer for overstock plasma television sets.
The fax states that the plasma TV’s in [...]

You may remember the news from a few months back about how the company known as TJX, the parent company of retail stores like Bob’s, Marshall’s and T.J. Maxx, managed to lose the personal data of millions of customers to Internet hackers.
It is now being reported that this blunder by TJX has helped facilitate a [...]

That’s a lot of ground beef, but apparently, there is a chance that it is contaminated with E. coli bacteria. We’ve all heard enough about E. coli over the years and should know that it can be quite dangerous — especially to young children and the elderly.
The recalled ground beef was sold to Wal-Mart stores [...]

Now who the heck do you believe in a story like this one? A corrupt Nigerian politician is blaming a corrupt U.S. Congressman for taking advantage of him by using him to perpetrate well-known 419 scams.
For those unfamiliar with Nigerian 419 scams, most of them involve e-mail messages from scam artists in Nigeria who usually [...]

In yet another phony check scam, some advertisers on the popular online classified web site Craigslist are being contacted by scam artists.
The story I read about involved a fellow who was advertising his services as a music instructor. Shortly thereafter, he began to receive e-mail messages from scam artists pretending to be interested in his [...]

OK, so how about a peek at the other side of the coin. This time, instead of small businesses being scammed by individuals, here’s a case of a small business that has allegedly scammed consumers.
A Manhattan, New York jewelry company that goes by the names “Jewelry by Ezra” and “EMH Group LLC” is paying almost [...]

We so often hear about elderly people getting scammed that it might be easy to forget that just about anyone can become a victim of a scam. In this case, it is small businesses that need to think twice when they are contacted my some agency claiming to be some kind of government agency.
One recent [...]