by admin | Nov 13, 2018 | Uncategorized
Your credit report is one of the most important documents in your financial life. The information in your credit report as maintained by the three major credit reporting agencies, Equifax, TransUnion and Experian is used to calculate your credit score. This is used...
by admin | Nov 12, 2018 | Uncategorized
Today’s Scam of the Day comes from a Scamicide reader who, fortunately, was able to recognize a mystery shopper scam when he was contacted through LinkedIn by someone purporting to work for a company called BlueOctopus Research seeking to hire him to be a...
by admin | Nov 11, 2018 | Uncategorized
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has started a legal action against Andris Pukke and five other defendants in regard to a massive real estate scam allegedly masterminded by Pukke, a previously convicted scammer. Pukke sold undeveloped lots in the Central American...
by admin | Nov 10, 2018 | Uncategorized
A common theme in many scams, including phony lottery scams and the infamous grandparent scam, is that the scammers will require the victim to wire money rather than use a credit card or a check. Once money has been wired, it is all but impossible to trace or stop...
by admin | Nov 9, 2018 | Uncategorized
I wrote earlier this year about Twitter and Facebook scams involving a number of celebrities such as Dwayne Johnson, Tyler Perry and Elon Musk and now a new variation of the Twitter Elon Musk scam is turning up. Posing as a famous person on social media such as...
