Home > Tag Archives: COVID-19 scams

Tag Archives: COVID-19 scams

Better Beware – Triple Ripoff

Fake demands to buy non-existant home test kits for COVID-19, a new way to turn your digital wallet into a money laundry, thousands of flood-damaged cars hitting the market, and a great website to help fight scammers!

Read More »

Better Beware – Scammer Bonanza

Let’s face it, the COVID-19 outbreak has been a major interruption in all our lives, and for many, the shutdown has been a financial disaster. But you know what it’s been for scammers and swindlers? It’s a Bonanza! It’s getting wild out there, and not just in the west. The FTC reports that Americans across the country have already lost …

Read More »

Better Beware – We’ll Meet Again

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 …

Read More »

Better Beware – Don’t Be an April Fool

Well, it’s April Fool’s Day, and if scammers and swindlers had a national holiday, this would be it. For the rest of us, let’s not give them anything to celebrate. At the moment, the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic is what the low-lifes are doubling down on, and their latest sideshow is fake tests for the Coronavirus. Also, what with the lockdowns …

Read More »