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<\/a>Scam calls have been a problem for several years, with frauds pretending to be everyone from the IRS to local police in an effort to virtually rob people of their money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In 2022 alone, American citizens were tricked into paying billions of dollars to phone scammers. For scammers, it\u2019s a game of numbers that just so happens to pay off every now and again. Their victims surely don\u2019t see it that way.Read more<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Scam news 2<\/p>\n\n\n\n Adam Donovan says he was not expecting to be targeted by six scammers within a few hours as he tried to sell an old couch on Facebook Marketplace.Mr Donovan, who works at an IT shop in Noosa, said he was fortunately able to differentiate between scammers and potential buyers.But he said he saw cases at his work where others were not as lucky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “I’ve been privy to lots of scammers on Facebook, so my first thing to do is click on the person’s profile who sent the message, and then scroll and see what information I can see,” he said.Read more<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Scam news 3<\/p>\n\n\n\n MILWAUKEE<\/strong> – From the image to the artist, a lot of thought goes into getting a tattoo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The owner of Ghost Light Tattoo Parlor on Milwaukee’s east side told FOX6 News someone is taking advantage of first-time clients \u2013 and using the name of his business to do so.”We\u2019re mostly a custom shop,” said owner Chris Burke.Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Scam news 1 TikToker Warns Against Virtual Kidnapping Scam Scam calls have been a problem for several years, with frauds pretending to be everyone from the IRS to local police in an effort to virtually rob people of their money. In 2022 alone, American citizens were tricked into paying billions of dollars to phone scammers. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awareness","category-scam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1961"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1965,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1961\/revisions\/1965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Facebook Marketplace Scams<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
<\/a>Tattoo Artist Scam – Warning from Milwaukee Shop Owner<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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