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Watch Out for Phone Bill Cramming

May 4, 2012 By Survivor

The issue of phone bill cramming, which is the addition of unauthorized or unrelated charges to a phone bill, has been around for a while, but appears to have gotten worse with the troubled economy. Cramming occurs when charges from third parties that you did not authorize show up on your phone bill. Charges can […]

Filed Under: Financial Issues, Scams and Fraud

Good Samaritan Scam

September 14, 2011 By Survivor

We found this interesting video while cruising through You Tube. It demonstrates a new type of scam that is pretty ingenious. I could see a lot of people falling for thing one–unless you know about it before you get hit. The Good Samaritan scam requires a small team of only two or three people. There […]

Filed Under: Scams and Fraud

Beware of the Locksmith Scam

July 10, 2011 By Survivor

While most of us are aware of contractor scam and mechanic scams where someone charges you for work you never authorized or they perform shoddy work and then disappear, we just heard about a new scam that could hit anyone in any city. An article in The New York Times entitled, Picking the Lock of […]

Filed Under: Scams and Fraud

Credit Repair Companies – Are They White Knights or Sharks?

May 7, 2009 By Survivor

Credit repair companies are on the rise with the sudden surge of unpaid debt Americans are amassing on a daily basis, and their advertising of services is increasing. Many credit repair companies offer to help improve or fix your credit history for a fee – sometimes affordable, but more often than not, for astronomical rates. […]

Filed Under: Financial Issues, Scams and Fraud

Beware of Online Job Scams

September 15, 2008 By Survivor

As the worldwide economy falters the number of online scams is increasing. Most recently a wide range of job offers has begun to arrive with e-mails. Almost every one of these offers is a classic case of e-mail spam. Some contain malicious code, others seek to gather personal information to use for identity theft and […]

Filed Under: Scams and Fraud

Where to Obtain a Free Credit Report

July 19, 2008 By Survivor

In the USA you are legally entitled to receive a free copy of your credit report once per year from each of the three major credit reporting agencies. If you want a copy more often than that, you will probably have to pay for the copies from each of the three credit reporting agencies. Credit […]

Filed Under: Financial Issues, Identity Theft, Scams and Fraud

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