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An overpayment scam, also known as a refund scam, is a type of confidence trick designed to prey upon victims' good faith. In the most basic form, an overpayment scam consists of a scammer claiming, falsely, to have sent a victim an excess amount of money.
Old coins and bills tucked in wallets, drawers, change jars, or even amidst your couch cushions could be worth hundreds or thousands of dollars beyond their face value. See: If You Find a Lincoln...
Some scammers may put the return label on an advertisement and remove all shipping information except for the barcode. This may cause the company to throw out the 'return', thinking it is junk mail. This serves the same purpose as a package redirection scam; the company believes they mismanaged the return and refunds the scammer's money.
The scammer will roll coins of lesser value or slugs of no value, or less than the correct number of coins in a roll, then exchange them at a bank or retail outlet for cash. To prevent these problems, many banks will require people turning in coins to have an account, and will debit the customer's account in the event of a shorted roll.
U.S. consumers who were “tricked” into purchases they didn't want from Fortnite maker Epic Games are now starting to receive refund checks, the Federal Trade Commission said this week. Back in ...
Anti-counterfeit money sign and examples of counterfeit notes received by a noodle shop in Kunming, Yunnan, China. Some of the ill-effects that counterfeit money has on society include: [3] [4] Companies are not being reimbursed for counterfeits. This has led to companies losing buying power. [30] As such, there is a reduction in the value of ...
The RealReal used data from U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Census records to highlight the proliferation of counterfeit goods in e-commerce—and what consumers can do to protect themselves.
The black money scam, sometimes also known as the "black dollar scam" or "wash wash scam", is a scam where con artists attempt to fraudulently obtain money from a victim by convincing them that piles of banknote-sized paper are real currency that has been stained in a heist.