Internet Fraud
Prizes and Sweepstakes
Congratulations! You've won a car, valuable jewelry, cash, or some other fabulous prize! Is this really your lucky day, or is your luck about to take a turn for the worse? Never pay to play. It’s illegal for a company to require you to buy something or ...
Pyramids and Multilevel Marketing
The pitch is that you will make money by paying to participate in the program and recruiting others to join. But if it's really a pyramid, you and your friends will lose money, not make it. Plans that promise profits mainly for recruiting new members a ...
Scholarship Scams
Need a scholarship for college? The advertisement promises help, but you may learn the hard way that promises to get your a scholarship are false. Know who you’re dealing with. It may be a search company that is offering to help locate scholarships for ...
Telephone Cramming
In addition to "plain old telephone service," you can buy extra services such as voice mail, paging, and Internet access from many different companies. But when charges show up on your phone bill for services you never agree to buy, you've been "crammed." ...
Travel Fraud
The thought of going to a warm vacation spot in the winter or visiting a foreign country is exciting. But what seems like a great deal may turn out to be a bad trip. Be skeptical of offers for “free” trips. Airlines and other well-known companies somet ...
Work-At-Home Scams Popular
The ad says you can make lots of money working from the comfort of your home. But if this were true, wouldn't we all be working at home? Know who you’re dealing with. The company may not be offering to employ you directly, only to sell you training and ...