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The fraudsters also spoof the caller ID number of the homeowner's actual lending institution, further convincing them of the call's legitimacy, the agency noted.
When a scammer calls, silence is golden. ‘People are losing their life savings’: Seven Maryland residents lost $6.3 million in a gold bar scam targeting seniors. How to make sure this doesn ...
Consumer Reports (CR), formerly Consumers Union (CU), is an American nonprofit consumer organization dedicated to independent product testing, investigative journalism, consumer-oriented research, public education, and consumer advocacy.
A Nebraska couple was recently scammed out of $115,000 in a “very unusual” and “scary” fraud scheme, investigators say. A couple — ages 71 and 68 — were at their home in Lancaster ...
The Gold Prospectors Association of America (GPAA) is an organization dedicated to finding and mining gold on a small or recreational scale. [1] It has gold claims across America and members can work the claims for a yearly fee. As of December 2024, the club had over 200 places to find gold, making up more than 90,000 gold-bearing acres.
Scams and confidence tricks are difficult to classify, because they change often and often contain elements of more than one type. Throughout this list, the perpetrator of the confidence trick is called the "con artist" or simply "artist", and the intended victim is the "mark".
This is story of “Operation Goldfinger,” how police sprang into action to try and prevent con artists from stealing a hunk of a Georgia couple’s life savings.
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