When the job market got scary in the early part of this decade, a lot of people started looking online for ways to make some extra money. Most people realize “if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is”, but desperation and fear can make sensible people do less than sensible things.
The internet [...]

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I decided to do a link roundup about this and make it a resource post so new visitors can easily find the posts if the search engines don’t take them right to ‘em.

My original post - just a warning to everyone

My next post, where I talk about calling the police and Verizon. This is also [...]

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I recently posted about an “account services” scam, which turned out to be more widespread than I realized. There are people all over the country getting these, and some people have fallen for it. Yet the authorities can’t seem to track the criminals down.
The service Verizon offered me - blocking any callers that have chosen [...]

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GetRichSlowly has a post with some great tips for deterring ID thieves, defending yourself and detecting that a crime has taken place. He also took the time to convert some helpful FTC documents into PDF format (the FTC encourages this) so you can download a copy for yourself.
In addition to his extensive list of tips, [...]

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Please spread the word about this. Feel free to repost this anywhere you can with a link back to me.  I’m still getting spam phone calls from “Heather” at “Account Services” who wants to lower my credit card interest rates. It’s an automated message. If you want to speak to someone you press 1, at [...]

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I just got an automated phone call from “Heather” at “account services” calling about my credit card. The message never identified what credit card company it meant, nor who the cardholder was supposed to be. It just wanted me to press 1 to speak to a live operator so they could lower my interest rate.
I’m [...]

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