19 September 2018 - Chad Tackett claimed his weight loss program was so good that it was part of a university-sponsored study. That the study never existed was the least shady part of the tale.
28 May 2018 - An insidious scam ends not with free gift cards, but with Facebook users involuntarily spamming the groups to which they belong.
28 February 2018 - The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid are not calling senior citizens and asking for personal information ahead of the launch of a new Medicare card.
12 September 2017 - Police in Florida are warning of scams post-Irma, and that two men posing as power company workers stole nearly $13,000 in jewelry from a 95-year-old woman.
30 August 2017 - The Federal Emergency Management Agency confirmed that a flyer advertising high-paid jobs available through 31 August 2017 is real.
8 February 2016 - Airlines are not giving away free tickets or spending money to Facebook users who share and like a page. Those offers are a form of online scam.
26 May 2017 - Dubious web sites hawking anti-aging face creams and supplements lure consumers with fake celebrity endorsements.
22 November 2016 - We called "EDU Loan Servicing" after it was featured on a "consumer watchdog" page; it appears to be one of many scams.
30 September 2016 - We could find no proof that the supposed brain supplement InteliGEN enhances brain function or is even safe to use.
19 September 2016 - An organization claiming to have invented a vaccine against diabetes that also reverses the effects of the disease was swiftly shut down by the Mexican government for making fraudulent health claims.
6 September 2016 - Multiple like-farming Facebook pages have lured users with the false promise of a tiny house giveaway.
15 July 2016 - A Facebook post offering a free $100 Kroger's coupon is just another version of an online sweepstakes scam.
