Tag Archives: phone scams

A round-up of some of the latest, and not so good, ways that scammers are trying to get the best of you.

Three current scams are flourishing while everyone is distracted by current events. Here’s a heads-up on what’s going around right now, and some good reasons to stay home and stay safe.

There is a lot of fraud going around that relates to the Election — but it’s not fraudulent voting, it’s scammers trying to keep you from voting! Or steal your identity…or your money. Watch out for them, starting right now.

Here is a list of basic Do’s and Don’ts that everyone needs to remember to stay safe in our modern world. Let’s start with some things NOT to do…

Phone scammers who threaten you are now insisting you don’t hang up until you send the money; people have been getting mysterious packets of seeds in the mail, and phone apps from Presidential campaigns have big differences. Three things to watch out for!

Stalkerware is a program – a very sophisticated and perfectly legal program – that you can install on your cellphone. Or…and this is the point…somebody else can install on your cellphone. It’s a program that lets another person know who you’re talking to, see your text messages, know your exact location at any given moment – in fact, see whatever …

Just because scammers are thinking up new ways to swindle you, with Coronavirus hooks, doesn’t mean they’ve stopped doing their good-old – I mean, bad-old Standbys. Duke Energy is warning of Disconnection Scams again – that’s where you get a phone call or email from somebody claiming to be from Duke (maybe with the correct Caller-ID), threatening to cut off …

Staying home all the time can be very stressful, and lots of people feel frustrated, lonely, and afraid. But remember that a hundred years ago, people coped with a much worse pandemic, and in those days they didn’t have the internet – in fact, they didn’t even have radio. Today we’re much more connected, and that helps. But watch out …

Do you know who you are talking to? Someone who gets in couch with you over technology could be an imposter. This is a person pretending to be someone else to deceive others. Almost half of all American have been targeted by them, so watch out!

Beware of free trials found in the google play store. It may not be as easy to get out of the trial as you think. Hear about what you can do to avoid these scams with WFHB corespondent Richard Fish.