According to the Federal Trade Commission, complaints about imposter robocalls totaled nearly 600,000 in fiscal year 2021, with scammers frequently posing as representatives of the Social Security Administration or the Internal Revenue Service. The FTC also said that nearly three million people signed up for its Do Not Call Registry Data Book, bringing the total… Continue reading The State of Scam Calls
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Common-Sense Advice for Protecting Yourself from Financial Schemers
My friend’s mother, who is in her 70s, got a letter in the mail printed on official-looking letterhead of a familiar bank, which informed her that a long-lost account had been discovered. It had money that she could reclaim if she telephoned before a certain date. The woman had done business with that bank and… Continue reading Common-Sense Advice for Protecting Yourself from Financial Schemers