Financial Scams

Any business can fall victim to a scam. There is no shortage of potential tricks that criminals can use in order to extract money from your business illegitimately. The best way of defending yourself against these scams is to ensure that your workers are all educated and understand the most common threats they face. Below […]

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3 Forex Bad Signals You Should Be Aware Of Forex trading is more popular than ever. The potential to make incredibly high profits makes it very appealing, and the low investment amounts that yield huge gains mean that anyone can get involved. Of course, as with anything that requires large sums of money and […]

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Fintech Industry: a Platform For Scammers To Take Your Money Easier Every year, consumers lose billions of dollars to scams. In 2018, senior Americans lost $2.9 billion to frauds and racket schemes while younger consumers (20+) lost around $400 to scammers. While these schemes have been going around for decades, the progression of fintech […]

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Understanding the Danger of Taking Payday Loans About 12 million people in the United States take payday loans every year. Unfortunately, many questionable loan companies tend to trick them into paying more than what they agreed. AMG Company is among the companies that have defrauded their borrowers before. The good news is that the customers […]

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Be Aware of Scams and Use an Interest Profit Calculator Anyone who is considering a long-term investment should know how to prevent financial fraud and use an investment calculator. In the past, we've been exposing many scams related to investments with high returns. Today we want to keep educating the readers with the other […]

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4 Ways To Avoid Personal Loan Scams Are you in need of cash but worried about a personal loan scam? Since the beginning of the internet, loan scammers have come up with a plethora of ways to scam victims into giving them money. They often try to cover up their tactics by claiming they have […]

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Some people say that succeeding in trading binary options depends on nothing but luck and is more similar to gambling than to other forms of investing. In spite of this criticism, binary options are rapidly becoming more popular for both professional and novice traders. Here are seven reasons why the binary options are the […]

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Before Finding The Answer, You Need To Avoid The Scammers How long does it take to get a personal loan? Every year, more than 30% of people find themselves asking that question. However, before finding the answer below, you need to educate yourself about the loan scams that you could be a victim of, […]

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The Financial Technology and the Risks That Come With It There is no doubt that the progression of fintech has changed the landscape of many industries. However, the introduction of financial technology has also exposed a giant susceptibility amongst them all: an increased chance of fraud. In Experian's Global Identity and Fraud Report, 55 […]

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The Most Common Fraud Types in 2019 You can speak to a neighbor, a classmate, or a work colleague and they would likely tell you that they do not believe that scammers could target them. Everyone thinks he is smart. In a report published by the Federal Trade Commission, it is said that last […]

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Remote Deposit: What It Is and How You're In Danger Technology is something that has transformed the banking landscape over the last couple of decades. Where it used to be that in order to do any sort of banking, including making a deposit, transfer, or bill payment, you'd need to head to your local […]

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How It's Possible To Create Fake Contact Information On Legitimate Businesses There is a new scam going around these days. The scary part is that will keep making victims as long as consumers trust everything they search for on Google. What are we talking about? Google Maps. Let's take a look. Watch the video […]

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Online Marketing Courses Fraud: How It Works You might come across online ads posted by marketing 'gurus' who promise to make you millions of dollars within a short amount of time. To find out how, you have to buy their digital classes, kits, webinars or even ebooks which reveal the secret. Before you fall into […]

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Payment to Expedia Scam: How It Works As the online shopping has become very popular in the last few years, so did the fraudulent transactions. The latest trap is the You've Sent a Payment to Expedia Scam hinting a PayPal transfer. It could also happen by referencing other names of well-known companies, not just the […]

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Wells Fargo Account Lockdown Scam: How It Works Beware of the Wells Fargo Message Scam, that is perpetrating these days. Let’s see how it works. You may be receiving a phone call or text message one of these days claiming to be from Wells Fargo. It is an answering machine with a recorded message, informing […]

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How the CRA Federal Charges Scam Works One of the newest scams hitting Canadians this week is the CRA Federal Charges Scam, with a new twist. It involves Steam gift cards, a phone call, and a tax evasion reference. I know you probably never heard of the Steam cards and that’s why you should pay […]

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Structured Settlement Scam: How It Works If you know what a structured settlement is and you're involved in a legal case on this topic, beware of the Sell Structured Settlement scam, aka the Client First Settlement Funding scheme. It happens a lot nowadays, and you could be the latest victim. How does this scam […]

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