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• Fake email addresses - Malicious actors sometimes send from email addresses made to look like an official email address but in fact is missing a letter(s), misspelled, replaces a letter with a lookalike number (e.g. “O” and “0”), or originates from free email services that would not be used for official communications.
An overpayment scam, also known as a refund scam, is a type of confidence trick designed to prey upon victims' good faith.In the most basic form, an overpayment scam consists of a scammer claiming, falsely, to have sent a victim an excess amount of money.
8 warning signs of a debt collector scam Receiving a call, email or letter from a company purporting to be a debt collector can spark alarm. Before disclosing any information, look for these eight ...
The 2012 feature film Compliance, directed by Craig Zobel. [35] [36] The 2016 play Mai Dang Lao, written by David Jacobi, [37] which opened at the Victory Gardens Theatre in Chicago. Let's Go To Court Podcast featured the scam in an episode in March, 2019, episode titled "Episode 58: The Sleepwalker & the McDonald's Strip Search." [38]
You’re not doomed to fall victim to a scam like this. This Colorado couple faced a $3,700 scam nightmare on AT&T account — fraudster bought iPad, iPhone, smartwatch, 2 sets of headphones.
Cramming is a form of fraud in which small charges are added to a bill by a third party without the subscriber's consent, approval, authorization or disclosure. These may be disguised as a tax, some other common fee or a bogus service, and may be several dollars or even just a few cents.
A Colorado pastor is accused of taking advantage of followers of his virtual church with a $1.3 million cryptocurrency fraud scheme, which he claimed in a video statement the Lord made him do.
Learn how to report spam and other abusive conduct.