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<\/a>GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga. – Just like taxes, death is inevitable, but funeral homes try to be a place of peace as people deal with loss. Scammers, however, are trying to ruin that feeling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“There were so many red flags, and I was an idiot,” said a woman who had money stolen by a scammer. Read more<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Scam news 2<\/p>\n\n\n\n HASTINGS, Neb. (KSNB) – A scam website asking prospective employees for bank information and social security numbers is using a Hastings address as a front.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Better Business Bureau (BBB) is warning consumers to avoid PLS US LLC, also known as PS Ship and Platinum Shipping and Logistics, and uncovered a re-shipping scam operation that hides behind a legitimate Hastings business and has impacted dozens of consumers in 2023. Read more<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Scam news 3<\/p>\n\n\n\n Banks have warned of a large increase in fraud in 2022, with much of this originating online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Barclays told the BBC that 77% of scams are now happening on social media, online marketplaces and dating apps.TSB said a large increase in cases of impersonation, investment and purchase fraud were the main drivers of this. Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Scam news 1 Beware of funeral home scams GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga. – Just like taxes, death is inevitable, but funeral homes try to be a place of peace as people deal with loss. Scammers, however, are trying to ruin that feeling. “There were so many red flags, and I was an idiot,” said a woman […]<\/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-2386","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\/2386","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=2386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2390,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2386\/revisions\/2390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Scam Targeting Consumers at Hastings<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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