This page features a daily collection of links to articles about Internet scams (as well as some links to prominent scams of the non-cyber variety).
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Dial-up Internet users are being hit by a new scam in which their log-on connections are diverted through premium-rate telephone numbers, socking them with hefty phone bills.
The Better Business Bureau is warning people about a scam that uses the hearing impaired phone system to dupe families and businesses. It's called the Nigerian Letter scam.
Finding a telecommuting job is not an easy task. Scam artists with their ads for easy money licking envelopes have created an illusion that work-at-home jobs are abundant and all that one needs to do is sign up.
Police and banks are warning elderly residents about a telephone scam asking them to wire several thousand dollars in order to claim a lottery prize that does not exist.
The letters plead for assistance and promise money for those who will help. They come in the mail or pop up when you check your email.
Don't be fooled, police said these letters are scams and could land you in jail.
With gasoline prices near record highs, drivers are looking for ways to lower the costs of filling their tanks. The Texas attorney general, however, warns North Texans to be aware of a new scam offering gas for disproportionately low prices.
Telemarketing scammers — "telescammers," we call them — use their professional, friendly voices, and their cold-blooded greed, to get to other people's money.
A federal magistrate sent a San Bernardino County couple to prison for running a bogus Internet dating service that swindled money from men by promising to set them up with Russian women.
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
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