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A new gold bar scam is fleecing unsuspecting victims across the U.S. out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. ... One dozen eggs in America now costs $4.15 — and $14.35 for a pound of sirloin ...
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 ...
The FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center has seen a spike in similar gold bar scams, which target vulnerable seniors. Between May and December 2023, victims lost more than $55 million to this ...
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.
The Better Business Bureau (BBB) is an American private, 501(c)(6) nonprofit organization founded in 1912. BBB's self-described mission is to focus on advancing marketplace trust, [2] consisting of 92 independently incorporated local BBB organizations in the United States and Canada, coordinated under the International Association of Better Business Bureaus (IABBB) in Arlington, Virginia.
The agency stated that they had received consumer complaints about the calls, and that news outlets had also reported the calls as ongoing. [8] In 2024, the Better Business Bureau published an article stating that consumers have continued to report such calls to the BBB Scam Tracker. The article stated that no consumers reported any monetary ...
BBB says it goes further than many other review sites to ensure its reviews are genuine. The organization doesn't allow anonymous reviews, for example, and it requires reviewers to confirm their ...
A recovery room scam is a form of advance-fee fraud where the scammer (sometimes posing as a law enforcement officer or attorney) calls investors who have been sold worthless shares (for example in a boiler-room scam), and offers to buy them, to allow the investors to recover their investments. [92]