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The Better Business Bureau system, Visa USA, Call For Action and the Federal Trade Commission today announced a joint education campaign to help consumers "cut the line on phishing scams."
One of the oldest internet scams is making the rounds again — the Nigerian email campaign. It promises recipients millions of dollars. But the Alabama attorney general's office warns that it's not legit.
Three more people, including the brother-in-law of actor Andy Garcia, have been arrested in what prosecutors say was a multicounty credit card scam operation.
A southern California teenager who previously bilked investors out of $1 million in an Internet betting scheme has been sentenced to almost three years in jail for an unrelated scam he operated through online auctioneer eBay.
A 73-year-old Chillicothe woman lost $7,200 to a scam artist. The victim was called by a man claiming to be an auditor from a local bank. The caller told the victim he needed $4,800 in cash from her