You can’t buy $10,000 for $99.99, but some Trump fans think so. “Trump Bucks” bills, coins, and checks are being sold by scammers as “memorabilia” and “commemorative” items, but some of their advertising (e.g., the video below) claims they can be used as cas[...]
Posts Tagged ‘scams’
May 23rd, 2023 - 2:34 pm § in Law and Courts
49 states sue VoIP provider for scam robocalls
Avid Telecom, which provides Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services, is being sued by “nearly every attorney general in the country” for facilitating billions of robocalls, many of which were scams, CNBC reported on Tuesday, May 23, 2023 (read story here). The legal complaint alleg[...]
December 28th, 2022 - 11:20 pm § in Misc.
How bad are robocalls in Washington state?
A Seattle TV station is putting numbers on it. Scammers called Washington residents 260 million times last year, KING 5 TV says (read story here). That works out to 33 calls per person. I get that many in a typical month. Here’s the bigger problem: More than 1 in 9 Washingtonians, 835,000 peop[...]
April 15th, 2022 - 5:50 pm § in Politics
Loren Culp gets phished
One-time cop and perpetual candidate Loren Culp fell for “a common phishing scam.” “Culp claimed … that Facebook had notified him it was about to delete his campaign page” and lit into Big Tech, the Tacoma News Tribune reported here. “But Facebook says it sent no [...]
They still sell snake oil
If you think medicine shows and fake cures were a 19th-century phenomenon that disappeared after 1900 or so, think again. Human nature is immutable. There were suckers then, and there are suckers now — and unscrupulous hucksters seeking to profit from human gullibility. The latest example: [...]
January 3rd, 2020 - 9:00 pm § in Misc.
Fraud prevention alert: Dating documents
When dating checks, contracts, and legal documents this year, write the entire year date — e.g., don’t write 1/3/20, write 1/3/2020 — otherwise the year can be changed. For example, a date written as “1/3/20” is easily changed to “1/3/2019” simply by adding two more numbers.[...]