by admin | Jan 3, 2016 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Mark Twain once said that the opposite of “progress” was “Congress” and it is hard to disagree with him when you consider the law recently passed by Congress requiring the IRS to use the services of private collection agencies to collect...
by admin | Nov 19, 2015 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Scammers are now making robocalls that purport to be from Verizon Wireless in which they promise a “bonus reward” payment of $54. All you have to do in order to claim your “bonus reward” is go to a Verizon Wireless website and verify your...
by admin | Nov 6, 2015 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Police in Clarkstown, New York are warning citizens of a new scam in which people are receiving telephone calls purporting to be from Sears with offers of tremendous discounts on the purchase of a television. The intended victim is told to go to a nearby Sears store...
by admin | Sep 5, 2015 | Scam of the day, Site Related
I dare say that probably everyone reading this has gotten a call in which you pick up the phone with nothing but silence on the other end of the line. The cynics among us, including me, tend to believe that this must be part of a scam. Remember, as I always say,...
by admin | Feb 25, 2015 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Recently the IRS issued its annual list of “Dirty Dozen” tax scams although many of these scams are not scams that cheat taxpayers, but rather scams the scammers attempt to perpetrate on the IRS in order to get large fraudulent refunds. These frauds...