Sometimes the scammers targeting Chinese students are really obvious. Their calls will always have a sentence at the end: “For mandarin services please press one, for English services please press two.” And if you press two, they will hang up. And yet, these scammers are becoming harder to identify. The…
Georgia tops the United States in the percentage of its residents becoming the victims of fraud. A study by Forbes Advisor, an editorial website covering financial news, reached this conclusion recently by showing that 437 fraud reports were generated for every 100,000 citizens of Georgia in the first three months…
MONEY saving expert Martin Lewis has issued an urgent warning to Brits not to fall for the latest scam. The founder of MoneySavingExpert.com has said criminals are using a new tactic to steal people’s hard-earned cash. 1 Martin Lewis has issued a warning to Brits not to trust scammers using…
Kiwi present hunters are being warned to watch out for scammers targeting online shoppers this Christmas. Photo / 123rf Kiwi bargain hunters are set to be targeted by scammers this Christmas, with a Government cyber security agency issuing a warning for online shoppers to be vigilant for bum deals. CERT…
Sadly, scams are rife, and many criminals will attempt to play on people’s emotions to make them part with their hard-earned cash. This was the case for Mark*, who didn’t realise he had been reeled into a scam until it was too late – with saddening consequences. Mark had set…
Scams, and the con artists behind them, are forever evolving and becoming more sophisticated and harder to spot. ACM has compiled a list of current scams identified on sites such as scamwatch.gov.au, cyber.gov.au and the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s website dedicated to informing people about fraudulent and dishonest activities….
What would you do for this check? I’m photographer Dave Koch, and this is the story of how my real estate photography business was recently targeted by a fake check scammer. I was recently hired to shoot six properties of varying sizes. It was my standard rate for MLS shoots,…
