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Best practices • Don't enable the "use less secure apps" feature. • Don't reply to any SMS request asking for a verification code. • Don't respond to unsolicited emails or requests to send money.
Scammers are using fake toll-collection texts to steal bank information, authorities warned. Avoid clicking suspicious links and report scams to protect your personal data.
An SMS scam targeting road tolls has resurfaced, claiming people owe money for unpaid bills.. An example of the scam text people may receive reads as follows: "Pay your FastTrak Lane tolls by ...
The scam may extend to the creation of Web sites for the bogus brand, which usually sounds similar to that of a respected loudspeaker company. They will often place an ad for the speakers in the "For sale" Classifieds of the local newspaper, at the exorbitant price, and then show the mark a copy of this ad to "verify" their worth.
Can you hear me?" is a question asked in an alleged telephone scam, sometimes classified as an internet hoax. [1] There is no record of anyone having ever been defrauded in such a scam, according to the Better Business Bureau, the Federal Trade Commission, and the Consumer Federation of America. Reports of the supposed scam began circulating in ...
The violin scam is a fraudulent public performance where someone pretends to play the violin using pre-recorded music. The scammer solicits donations using a sign and sometimes with a co-conspirator who approaches listeners for money. [1] [2] Scammers primarily use electric violins which are plugged into a speaker. The violin itself emits no ...
The complaint, filed on Oct. 15 in U.S. District Court of New Jersey by Happy Products of Oregon, names Unbeatablesales.com of Lakewood as one of five defendants accused of illegally marketing and ...
The company started an aggressive TV ad campaign, spending 330 million rubles in March 1994. [9] The ad campaign appealed to the general public by using "ordinary" characters that viewers could identify with. The most famous of them, a "folk hero" of early 1994, was Lyonya Golubkov. [4]