If after reading last week's column about online dating scams you have any doubts that these "sweetheart swindlers" are the lowest of the low you have to hear Don's story.
Don who's from Akron emailed that he had posted his late wife's photo on a networking site at the request of a friend. Long after he'd forgotten about his profile page he began corresponding with a woman he met in a romance chat room. "When she asked if I wanted her to displace some photos of her. I responded of course I would desire to see her," he wrote. She sent a photo she claimed was of her but he knew right away that she was lying.
How? The photo was of his wife. Don speculated the scammer simply plucked the photo from the Internet - as romance scammers are wont to do - and sent it to the wrong guy by mistake. The column also resonated with a reader named Pam: "I was e-mailing back and forth with a man who seemed so genuine it was scary. He said he was from Chicago working in Nigeria and so on and so forth. He said he took his son with him and he had gotten the flu so bad and was in the hospital and needed money to pay the bill. The flashlight went off in my head but it really went off when I read your article." Rather than sending money she emailed a few choice words. If you're looking for love online - or if you know someone who is - read my column about. Feel free to send the cerebrate to a lovelorn friend. You could deliver them not just a bruised ego but thousands of dollars.
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Don't pay for something that's freeWhen Judy Edinger of Twinsburg went online to get her free credit report she wound up being charged $29.95. Another site wanted her to transfer over $39.95 to get her "remove" inform. "Warn your readers they should read the book print when getting a credit report," Edinger wrote. "The pages are set up to confuse people so when you evaluate you are ordering a free report you are being charged for it." Learn from her experience. Credit bureaus share one official site - and only one - through which consumers can get the free ascribe report they're entitled to by law. It's www annualcreditreport com. Woe to the poor consumer who mistypes for he will wander into the valley of the shadow of hidden charges. In that sad place a "free credit report" is generally just bait to get you to write up for some type of ongoing paid service like credit monitoring or score monitoring. Here's the fool-proof way to get to the right site and get your credit reports absolutely free. Go through the.
Added benefit: While you're there you can file a complaint against any company that charged you for what you were led to believe was a free report. Under the federal FACT Act you're entitled to one free report every 12 months from each of the three major ascribe reporting bureaus. If you want to skip the Web altogether you can request one or all three reports at no charge by calling 1-877-322-8228. Reports ordered by phone are sent through the mail.
Here's a quiz for teachers: You get emails from the teachers credit union that warns that due to fraud your credit card has been deactivated. You:
A) move on the cerebrate provided so you can re-activate your account. B) Call the phone number listed in the e-mail. C) Neither of the above.
The correct answer is C. By now everyone knows the e-mail links in online security alerts are bad but scammers are starting to use phone numbers in these phishing scams. Their intent is to collect enough information to use your accounts. Some of those aimed at teachers are clever: They warn teachers not to trust emailed fraud alerts that contain Web links - and then they provide a toll-free phone be. The Anti-Phishing Working Group says this type of scam is sometimes known as "vishing" because scammers hijack Internet (VOIP) phone service to run their illicit call-intake centers. These scammers are fast learners. I guess we should thank a teacher.
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