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By the Federal Trade Commission’s estimates, more than 400,000 scams have been perpetrated amid the pandemic era. The FTC said this week, per a report from a CBS News, that the scams in question included everything from hawking fraudulent hand sanitizer concoctions to offering equally fraudulent vaccination cards. Also mentioned among the scam operations are […]
New information about the Paycheck Protection Program beneficiaries is revealing it to be even more of a grift than previously imagined. While the program was beset from the beginning with headlines revealing major companies took up to $905 million intended for small businesses, a new report reveals that the corruption and mishandling of funds went […]
Wanda Cooper-Jones, the mother of Ahmaud Arbery, has come out with a public condemnation of multiple people who she says are profiting off the death of her son. Obtained by TMZ, Cooper-Jones’ entire letter on that topic can be read here, which is what I would personally suggest. But we’ll also do our best to summarize […]
Kendall Jenner has reached a settlement in a lawsuit that pertained to her involvement with the legendarily disastrous Fyre Festival. Specifically, she has settled over the charge that she promoted the festival on her Instagram page in a photo that has since been deleted. It’s also worth noting is that her IG post contained no disclosure that she […]
Online scams are increasing as people continue to spend time at home and in front of phone and computer screens due to the global pandemic. Lafayette, Louisiana police are advising the public to remain vigilant about sharing personal information after a new Facebook challenge, which asks people for their info. “One of the most recent ones […]
David James, president of the Louisville Metro Council in Kentucky, has been engrossed in a long-standing battle with a group of alleged scammers who are thought to be Illinois-based, WDRB reports. James and local advocate Tara Bassett have been trying to force them out of Kentucky since last year when the group started testing people’s DNA for disease. James suspects that the global COVID-19 […]
A group of men posing as rap industry bigwigs finessed more than $100,000 from luxury hotels in Georgia, according to the Associated Press. The men, who were driving a Rolls Royce Phantom rented from A-National Limousine, pulled up to the hotels and told employees they were with Roc Nation and Wu-Tang Clan, the criminal complaint […]
In addition to running up credit card debt and hearing covers of the same half-dozen songs for weeks on end, the holiday season also affords you the opportunity to be scammed. As always, be overly cautious and suspicious of everyone. This year, as was also the case in 2015 and 2018, the Better Business Bureau […]
Suckers in America lost an estimated $143 million last year by way of online scams of the would-be romantic variety. That’s a stat now receiving renewed interest in the wake of this month’s announcement from federal officials, per CNN, that 80 people had been charged in connection with a scam operation that successfully snatched millions. Citing […]
If you’re using Alexa, Siri, Google Assistant, or some other virtual subordinate to call a business for you, then you may be opening yourself up to scammers adapting to an ever-dependent-on-technology-world, at least according to a warning from the Better Business Bureau. As the BBB describes it, the con could play out if you refer […]
