I just love stories like this one! This is probably the last thing these scumbag scammers expect when they call an 81-year-old woman.
The elderly Wisconsin woman received a phone call from someone informing her that she had won the Publisher’s Clearing House sweepstakes. At first she thought it sounded too good to be true and she [...]

A recent story on an Oklahoma news broadcast featured the story of a local woman who you might assume would be an unlikely identity theft victim.
The woman in question does not make purchases online, have a debit card or a car loan. Even still, a woman in Georgia was using her identity to apply for loans.
Since blaming [...]

The telephone rings, and like many modern consumers, you glance at the Caller ID display to see who is calling before you pick up. I’ve had Caller ID for years and rarely ever pick up without checking it. I love Caller ID.
Now who would expect that the name and number you see on the Caller [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]