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 […]
Good Samaritan Scam
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 […]
Beware of the Locksmith Scam
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 […]
Credit Repair Companies – Are They White Knights or Sharks?
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. […]
Beware of Online Job Scams
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 […]
Where to Obtain a Free Credit Report
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 […]