lottery scam
| 3:30PM 7/14/2011
The Internet Crime Complaint Center's latest scam alert includes a bogus advance-fee email purportedly sent by the director of the FBI as well as harassing payday loan calls from scammers claiming to represent the IC3.
Alerts by the IC3, a partnership between the FBI and the National White Collar...
| 9:00AM 8/26/2010
Counterfeit and phony checks are a bane to consumers and businesses alike. But one state has come up with a way to keep folks informed about these attempts to rip off people and stores.
The New Mexico Attorney General's Office created a database to help consumers identify counterfeit checks they...
| 3:30PM 6/19/2009
My family knows about cashier's check scams and other crafty international methods of loosing the elderly and other emotionally fragile types from their money. Over the past few months, both my husband's great uncle and his sister's ailing landlord have been the subject of a series of shysters and...