Tech-savvy teens falling prey to online scams faster than grandparents
Online-scam complaints from the under-21 crowd to the FBI reached about 23,200 last year, up from 9,000 in 2017. That age group reported total losses in 2020 of roughly $71
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2021’s Most Common Financial Scams
From Birch Gold Group Among the many contenders for the most frequent scams in 2021, Business Insider has selected the five most frequent offenders. Last year, there were more than 800,000 scams
Travel Scams on the Rise: Here’s What to Watch For
From Birch Gold Group Used to be an overpriced tourist trap was the biggest concern most travelers faced. The pandemic and subsequent lockdowns temporarily ended tourism and travel worldwide. The end
Online Dating Scams: A Billion Dollar Global Industry
Want the secret on how to make money online fast? Create a fake dating profile of an attractive person living an adventure filled lifestyle and scam people out of hundreds
Government Grant Scams
From Birch Gold Group How to recognize a government grant scam when you see one? By following a simple rule and asking yourself, Did I apply for this grant? If the answer
Beware of Business Loan Scams – Triple Lutz Report
from Kerry Lutz’s Financial Survival Network FSN community member Joe brought this to my attention… The promise is fast easy business loans with minimal documentation. Give them 3 months of checking
AOC SCAMS New Yorkers Into Donating To Her Campaign By EXPLOITING Families
100% Fed Up reports, Thank goodness Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is not a Republican or this would be a huge news story. Supporters of the New Green Deal, came out for
FBI: Tax Extortion Scams Are Skyrocketing
via CNBC: “We can’t arrest our way out of this situation,” the FBI’s financial crimes section chief said Monday. Victims lost $83 million to extortion scams, which frequently target individuals
No, You Can’t Get Paid To “Go Solar”: Beware Of Energy Scams
By Julianne Geiger As if the solar industry didn’t already face significant headwinds on its way toward world domination, a Facebook page called Solar Energy Today has promised solar energy
Beware of These IRS Scams This Tax Filing Season
From Birch Gold Group Tax filing season is underway, and scammers are wasting no time when it comes to adjusting their cons accordingly. Until we meet the IRS deadline in April,
The 3 Biggest Media-Deep State Scams
by Wayne Allyn Root Remember the old warning from President Eisenhower about the dangerous “military industrial complex”? Eisenhower was right. But the defense industry has nothing on the DC Swamp, Deep State,
LONG ISLAND MAN SCAMS $45,000 IN CASH FROM 81-YEAR-OLD WOMAN
LONG ISLAND, New York – A man is accused of scamming $45,000 from an elderly woman on Long Island, detectives say. An unknown man reportedly contacted the 81-year-old victim and
Almost half of US cellphone calls will be scams by next year, says report
Fraudsters most often use local prefixes to trick people. Many of us are already conditioned to ignore phone calls from unknown numbers. A new study seems to validate that M.O.
Mattress Firm Considers Bankruptcy to Get Out of its Real Estate Scams
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter This is so thick it’s hard to believe. It’s far beyond just a Brick & Mortar Meltdown. “I recently sold a small strip center with my
All Connections, Scams, Corruption, It’s All About To Explode
This is not good… Deep state will not go down without a fight… AC
Beware of employment scams!
by Aviator2903 I saw plenty of other posts about various employment scams and I recently encountered one myself. My sister-in-law is in college and in the process of applying for
Heather Wagenhals – Uncovering the Scams
from Financial Survival Network Heather Wagenhals joined us again to talk about the FBI scam. Scammers got a hold of the FBI’s identity theft reporting data base. Then they started a sophisticated
Keiser Report: Scams on Wall St the same, just repackaged
In this episode of the Keiser Report, Max and Stacy discuss JP Morgan stacking silver in response to Max Keiser and also about the whistleblower claiming the VIX index is
Heather Wagenhals – New Scams for a New Year
from Financial Survival Network Heather Wagenhals returns… Car scams are all the rage these days. Scammers get you to wire money for a car that they’ve advertised. They get your money and
Common Tax Scams in 2017 and How to Avoid Them
by Amna El Tawil Tax season is already which means you have to be extra careful to ensure everything’s okay by the deadline day. But that’s not the only concern