‘Tis the season… for catalogs and junk mail in your mailbox, it seems. While those pre-approved credit card offers, leaflets, catalogs and circulars may be trash to you, they can be treasure to identity thieves. Want to cut down on all that unwanted paper? While you can’t stop your bills, you can put the brakes on the amount of unsolicited mail you receive. Here’s how.
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The BBB in Richmond, Virginia reports on a scam job advertisement running in newspapers across the country.
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It won’t be long before it’s time for the football playoffs and then the Super Bowl. And after that it’ll be time for March Madness. Before you go looking for those must-have tickets to see your favorite team in action, you need to know that every big sporting event is followed by lots of complaints to BBB from people who got ripped off buying fake tickets online.
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You may have received a forwarded email recently with the subject “Warning to Veterans!!” It says it’s from an official at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), but guess what? It isn’t.
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It may seem early, especially if you’ve just been through the ordeal of applying to college, but it’s time to start looking around and applying for scholarships for Fall 2011. Here are a few opportunities to get you going.
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