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Spend enough time surfing the Web, and you just might develop a sixth sense for scams. Sometimes it's a matter of a page that just doesn't look right, but often it's just a matter of spotting the words and phrases that tend to be pop up with great frequency on scam Web sites -- words like these.

Everyone knows beauty is pain. But should beauty cause cancer? A month after Oregon officials told beauty workers they should protect themselves while doing the hair smoothing "Brazilian Blowout," the California attorney general's office is suing the company behind the hair treatment. They say...

Be wary of online ads offering free trials for Acai diet pills, work-at-home jobs or teeth whiteners. They're too good to be true, says the Better Business Bureau. The BBB has received thousands of complaints from consumers who signed up for free trial offers and then got stuck with recurring...

As the blogosphere stirs over black rice as the new low-cost superfood, WalletPop yearned to enter the foodie frenzy over this antioxidant-rich, go-to grain. Given that black rice contains as many anthocyanin antioxidants in 10 cooked teaspoons as in one spoonful of fresh blueberries, according to...

As many as 1 million U.S. consumers could have been scammed out of up to $100 million with acai berry and colon cleaners with phony endorsements from Rachael Ray and Oprah Winfrey, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said. The FTC announced it has sued the Arizona company making the claims and that a...

Scammer ingenuity knows no bounds. In 2010, as in years past, more criminals are taking the trouble to craft schemes, fudge websites, and get rich digg_url = 'http://digg.com/business_finance/Top_10_scams_in_2010_you_might_get_taken_by_2'; off the tight economy and the consumer...

Scam warnings about the acai berry have been coming fast and furious for years now, yet every day new products appear, and existing products already on watch lists keep on rolling out in mail order packages, claiming to be touted by Oprah and charging unwitting buyers' credit cards. Why are people...