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The Better Business Bureau of Minnesota and North Dakota reports consumers have been receiving fraudulent confirmation e-mails claiming to originate from the online shoe retailer Zappos. In a public statement on the incident, the BBB calls these e-mails "suspicious." Consumers are advised not to...

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration will provide free seat inspection stations around the country on Sat., Sept. 25, part of the "Child Passenger Safety Week" awareness campaign. The agency estimates that 75 percent of child restraints aren't properly installed, and so encourages...

Scammers have stolen the identity of a national employment firm and are using it to trap consumers with a money-laundering scheme that claims to be a mystery-shopping job. The St. Louis Better Business Bureau reports the identity of Oklahoma-based Express Employment Services is being used to draw...

Young adults aged 18-24 take almost twice as long to discover identity theft than those in other age groups, says a warning from the Denver/Boulder Better Business Bureau to college students. One key finding in Javelin Strategy's Fraud Survey Report from this year, quoted by the bureau in its...

A nationwide arrest warrant has been issued for the former director of the U.S. Navy Veterans Association, a man known as "Bobby Thompson" whom investigators now believe used a stolen identity to commit widespread fraud. "The real Bobby Thompson, whose identity was stolen, including his Social...

Offers from a Canada-based company called FreeUSLaptop.com are probably too good to be true, says the Better Business Bureau in Denver/Boulder, where the company frequently advertises on the radio. Four complaints have been filed through through two separate Canadian BBB chapters against...

As journalists and business-minded folk scramble to solve the media crisis, three 21-year old women believe they have created a working model for online content--which makes sense, given that they come from the same school where Mark Zuckerberg launched Facebook. After winning Harvard's i3...

A Denver man was sued by the Colorado Attorney General for allegedly claiming he could use legal tactics to stop foreclosures and eliminate consumers' mortgages. The office also won a judgment against American Mortgage Consultants, which collected money upfront for loan modifications but did...

An Indiana-based fund-raising company has agreed to stop asking for money from Iowa residents as part of a $10,000 settlement with the Iowa Attorney General's office. The Campaign Center and its president, Jonathan Wright, conduct telemarketing and fund-raising services for non-profit...

A Chicago-area gravestone company didn't fill its orders in a timely manner, and in some cases misspelled names of the deceased on tombstones, says a lawsuit filed by the Illinois Attorney General. Larry A. Born and Marie Kanger-Born own Wulkan Monument Co. The attorney general's complaint...