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Consumer Action
New Year, New Consumer Scams
By Aleksandra Todorova |Aleksandra Todorova Archive |Published: December 27, 2007
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IT’S BEEN A tough year for consumers. With housing prices falling and the subprime-mortgage mess raging on, we won’t blame you if you’re looking forward to a fresh start in 2008.
Better watch out: The financial woes and natural disasters of 2007 have armed scammers with plenty of new tricks — or resourceful spins on old ones — aimed at separating you from your cash. Here the five most treacherous scams to watch out for in 2008.
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As a notary, I “hear” a lot of scams going on. It seems that they all boil down to the elemental “something4nothing”. You’ll magically get, for example, a grazillion bucks from your long lost aunt tillie, if you’ll just send a “shipping & handling” fee.
Right?
Last time I looked, the tooth fairy made house calls. No “s&h”.
Fore warned is fore armed!
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