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Gullible suburban mother of four regularly duped in her half-century life. Exploring hoaxes and schemes as the ExSCAMiner, she attempts answering the nagging question: Should I have fallen for that? Got scam tips, email Karin at ScamExaminer@gmail.com.

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Phishing, vishing, SMishing

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This month cell phones are receiving a new wave of text messages purporting to be from credit unions. A typical message reads: Your ATM card has...
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E-mail scams no October surprise

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This month, some recurring e-mail scams include newsworthy events, the promise of extra cash, and the ever-popular fear factor.Many consumers...
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Does your city rank on reporting fraud?

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The Federal Trade Commission maintains a Consumer Sentinel database collecting complaints from 125 organizations, including the Better Business...
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Scamming our troops

Kimberly Lankford wrote an article in August's Kiplinger's Personal Finance magazine titled "Taking Aim at...
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Job seekers vulnerable to identity theft

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Monster.com has experienced resume information breaches before. In 2007, a Trojan Horse program using stolen...
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Identity in a box

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Recently a family member located in another state received a letter from the Bank of New York Mellon Shareowner...
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Role reversal

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When are people vulnerable to scams? When they are trusting, confused, ill, tired, overwhelmed, medicated or...
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Global cyber-scamming community

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The FBI reports a 38 person global con ring bust, with participants from Romania, Pakistan, Portugal, Canada,...
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Don't stimulate the Identity Theft economy

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With the announcement Economic Stimulus Rebate Checks will start being distributed a week earlier than anticipated...
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