Fraud and Scam News

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The Traverse City Police Department notified all of a phishing scam targeted on Northwestern Bank customers. The bank contacted the police department last Friday after it received information from its customers that they had received emails from the bank asking for their confidential account information.
Phishers, posing as bank officials, were sending emails […]

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Better Business Bureau, Connecticut has warned all who are looking forward to picking up jobs this summer to be ready for scams out to con them. This is the time when fraudsters train their eyes on desperate and casual job-hunters alike and operate scams that focus on them.
As Bureau President Paulette Hotton pointed […]

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West Bend Savings account holders, beware! – a ‘vishing’ scam currently running in Wisconsin is trying to break into your savings account. Using an automated message, the scam may call you at your home with the ruse that your account security has been compromised. You are asked to call at a particular number […]