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While credit repair companies often claim they can "erase" bad credit or boost your scores, claims like these can be both false and misleading. Follow 5 steps to fix your credit without spending a ...
People shopping for bootleg software, illegal pornographic images, bootleg music, drugs, firearms or other forbidden or controlled goods may be legally hindered from reporting swindles to the police. An example is the "big screen TV in the back of the truck": the TV is touted as "hot" (stolen), so it will be sold for a very low price.
And whatever you do, don’t send cash, gift cards, or money transfers. You can report scam phone calls to the FTC Complaint Assistant. Online scam No. 4: "Tech support” reaches out to you ...
Technical support scams rely on social engineering to persuade victims that their device is infected with malware. [15] [16] Scammers use a variety of confidence tricks to persuade the victim to install remote desktop software, with which the scammer can then take control of the victim's computer.
Not all credit repair companies are bad. Some can actually help you build credit.
On December 16, 1999, a 16-year-old female server working at a local pizza parlor in Blackfoot, Idaho was taken to the manager's office after a phone call made by an individual only identifying as "Officer Davis" for the Blackfoot Police Department, accused an employee of stealing a woman's purse with a $50 bill in it earlier that evening. The ...
At one point, a woman is seen walking by, holding up an object to her ear. Clarke said that, on closer examination, she was talking into a thin, black device that had appeared to be a "phone". [1] Clarke concluded that the woman was possibly a time traveller. [2] The clip received millions of hits and was the subject of televised news stories. [3]
Demand among women, not a classic target demographic for Guinness, has also increased and broadened the drink’s appeal. Guinness says it saw a 24% rise in female customers last year.