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Scam Alert: Online Wedding Dress Ripoffs. ... One such address on one of the sites was that offered by a mail forwarding service. ... call the online store to get details about their business, and ...

Mystery shoppers are the latest target of con artists, who hope you'll be naive enough about banking laws to help them drain your bank account.

The Early Show consumer correspondent Susan Koeppen reports that, in a widely used scam attempt, consumers receive a real-looking check with the letters. All the recipients need do, the mail says ...

Latest news on Pippa Middleton's wedding date and marriage to James Matthews plus more on Pippa's wedding dress, ring and photos from the ceremony.

Phishing: The Latest Online Scam. By Brian Dakss ... Online "phishing" is the new weapon in thieves' arsenals. Phishing means sending cleverly created e-mails to large volumes of e-mail addresses ...

[b]Question: Scam alert. Are you getting phone calls by people claiming to be tech support?[/b] Hi my name is Glenn, screen name Glenn51. I have a question for...

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Walmart, which has roughly 5,000 stores nationwide and which is the largest private-sector employer in the U.S., has recently moved to adopt more employee-friendly policies.

6 questions for companies changing a dress code. ... But are your customers really asking for a change, or is this a dream of someone in management? ... because the next week a revised dress code ...

World On High Alert. ... A second threat cleared another skyscraper that houses offices for IBM and Standard Chartered Bank in Malaysia's biggest city. ... the European Central Bank gave an ...

Israel's largest bank, Bank Leumi, says it has been using voice biometrics for the past decade to deter fraud and boost customer safety. The technology has strong potential for streamlining ...

Register for a new account. Log in to your existing account. Make changes to your account information (e-mail address, password, etc.) Post a comment. Vote on/thumbs up anything. Download a white ...

Scam Savvy. November 4, 2007 ... you give the scammer access to your bank account or you set up another account that you fund with your own money. Once there is money in the account and the ...

Don't forget about gifts File iStockphoto . Whether or not you go to the wedding, you should send a gift.Three factors determine how much you should spend: First, you set your spending limits ...

The Mail on Sunday said Queen Elizabeth II has invited 50 guests, Prince Charles and his wife Camilla chose another 250, the same number as William and Middleton invited, while Middleton's family ...

A long-time scam involving fake parking tickets is revving up, thanks to cheap and sophisticated hand-held printers that can make fake tickets appear real. Elliott, who invites defrauded consumers ...

That employee, believing the email came from the CEO, wired more than $3 million to a bank in China, according to The Associated Press. Unfortunately, it was a scam and the company took a hit.

The funds are coming from the USA and they will have to be received through a Home Equity line of Credit in the USA or CANADA as this was the condition given. The funds are coming from a finance ...

Airbnb is clear about the danger of going off its site or app to conduct business. They send a warning email if a member of Airbnb asks to communicate via email.

The e-mail pleas and classifieds say that the author is a dog breeder who is on a religious mission in Africa and needs to unload the puppies — to good homes — as soon as possible.

U.S. Soldiers Charged in Marriage Scam October 27, 2009 / 10:04 AM / AP Sgt. Jason Hawk and his bride met for the first time when he picked her up at a bus stop near his Army base a day before ...

Beware the court-summons scam. By Kathy Kristof September 8, 2014 / 7:50 ... But in the one-in-a-million chance that you are involved in a suit, law firms will send it to you by mail.

I just received yet another phone call promising to reduce the interest rate on my credit card. While I'm savvy enough to know this is a scam, I have to admit I felt quite nervous after I hung up ...

Fake Netflix email is the work of a "phishing scam" designed to take users' personal billing information. If you are a recipient of one of the emails, do not reply with your account information ...

8 warning signs of a job scam. By Kathy Kristof September 26, 2014 / 7:45 AM / MoneyWatch If you were hoping to get a flexible job or work-from-home position, there's never been a better time. ...

UK Prime Minister. See the government's take on the event by checking for updates here. And if you want a bit of humor mixed in, here are three fake accounts to follow: PrincessKateFTW. Obviously ...

Princess Beatrice of York, left, and sister Princess Eugenie of York arrive to attend the royal wedding of Prince William to Catherine Middleton at Westminster Abbey on April 29, 2011, in London.

The pope's funeral is the latest glitch to hit the nuptials of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles. The royal wedding was slated for Friday, about midday, London-time. But that's when Pope ...

Cybersecurity expert Hemu Nigam said Gates fell victim to an old phishing scam that’s come back in a big way. “ [The hackers] say, ‘Oh, a horrible thing is going to happen – it’s an ...

Bartlett said he uses donations and special deals to make money. As an example, Bartlett said he and a neighboring sheriff recently split the $1,000 cost for an 18-wheeler full of corn dogs.

Beware the realistic IRS phone scam. ... Using fake names and IRS badge numbers, as well as caller identification spoofing technology, the scammers may also send victims a bogus email that mimics ...

Tax scam calls have soared 1,218 percent since last year, inundating American taxpayers with often threatening calls in the name of the Internal Revenue Service.

Lewis, who owned the Orange County firm Financial Advisory Consultants, was booked on a single felony count of mail fraud, although a spokesman for the U.S. attorney in Southern California has ...

IRS warns of biggest tax scam ever. ... * If you get an email that's purportedly from the IRS, do not open any attachments or click on any links in the email. Send it to [email protected]

Consumers were charged $50 up to several hundred dollars initially, the FTC said, and then a monthly fee of $40 to $1,000 for the purported health insurance.

Royal wedding guests . 4 / 41. Back image_gallery.single.controls.next. ... according to the UK's Daily Mail. ... Sir Trevor Brooking is the Football Association's director of football development ...