Excellent point. Yes, basic info is lacking. Actual entities do not call with "warnings." They show up in uniform, employ process servers or use USPS mail.
That is true. This happened to me several time claiming that my package was stuck in transit on my SMS. Last year, I got a fake message (SMS) about my card being disable with Bank of America, but the sms says "BankoffAmerica". It is the scammer playing with you, like a ruse to pull the trick on you.
FTC sends payments to people who lost money to a tech support scheme The FTC is providing full refunds to people who provided victim statements after losing money to a tech support scheme. The FTC and the Department of Justice sued Jagmeet Singh Virk and his company NTS IT Care, for tricking peop
Delivery scam texts were sent me from the PHILIPINES! (63 prefix) to me in Virginia - 3 in last 2 days. Listed them on whocallsme. Image with link that looks plausible - three different sending numbers with 3 different similar links. But I use the USPS Informed Delivery so knew that these were...
Here's a still-warm advice column regarding impostor fraud, posted to Newsweek this morning: My Wife Died Then I Lost All My Money to Scammers—What Should I Do? - Newsweek, 06 Nov 2023, 06:25 EST A Colorado man reports having run on fumes before his wife's death, under circumstances not discuss
Sooner or later every sci-fi and spy fiction series -- and one hybrid -- has gotten round to a doppelganger plot, often using some variant of the "evil twin" plot device. To resolve it, as often, a supporting character must distinguish the genuine protagonist from the very convincing impostor. The...
Following the news trail to September 2021, we find two other men arrested besides Feurtado, the coordinator of his money runners, and bogus bondsman Bouanane. (Bouanane's name was apparently misspelled in the Nexstar story before its DHS agent quote .... oopsie!) Also on the team, runner Roberto A....
Sounds very similar to tactics used by unlicensed store-front cannabis "dispensaries" that pop up in blighted and nearly defunct strip-malls. No signage, but they're pretty easy to spot because of a camera pointing at the front (electronically locked) door, *lots* of foot traffic, and the usual...
The crooks working the wedding industry hit photographers, invitation printers and florists. It's the old Craigs List scam, pretend to book a service or product, send a fake check or a phony CC number and overpay and ask for over-payment to be refunded. The person doing the booking is naturally out...
The aforementioned FTC alert: Imposters prey on families preparing for the funeral of a loved one - Jun 2023 Their 'defensive commerce' advice is quite similar to that for other impostor frauds. One comment cites a variant in which the poser allegedly verifies death certificate data. Another comme
Experts reveal the top area codes scammers use by state: Why Californians should never answer a 213 number but Floridians should ignore 716 calls Americans lost more than $326 million from scam texts alone last year, according to the Federal Trade Commission Texans should avoid messages from 469
