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Holly Doering's Blog – March 2012 Archive (3)

Thieves Stick Up ATM Users the Old-Fashioned Way

Recently, an alert for National Consumer Protection Week warned us to be cautious about using ATMs without checking for signs of tampering. Tampering, I thought, what could they mean? This week I ran across an explanatory article from last summer’s San Francisco Examiner, repeated on the Washington State Attorney General’s alerts…

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Added by Holly Doering on March 9, 2012 at 11:57am — No Comments

Beware Bogus Process Servers

They used to just call on the phone and threaten to arrest you. Now scammers are actually posing as process servers and showing up at your place of work and even your home! According to the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), the agency continues to receive complaints from victims of payday loan telephone collection scams.…

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Added by Holly Doering on March 6, 2012 at 8:46am — No Comments

Free Airline Ticket Scam

Recently I got very sick and had to be hospitalized. When I was released after a week, my email inbox was overflowing with strange messages. Like the one from “American Airlines” with a Zip file attached.

http://www.bbb.org/blog/2012/03/free-airline-ticket-scam/

Added by Holly Doering on March 2, 2012 at 10:24am — 1 Comment