Financial Scams
We all work hard for our money, and we want to hang onto it for our houses, cars and lives, or use it to make more money. Unfortunately, there are always plenty of people out there eager to part us from our cash and our bank accounts as we strive to make them grow. How do you distinguish the real opportunity from the scam, and how do you keep your money safe from grasping hands? We help you make sure that your money remains yours.
Below are our 19 articles in the 'financial scams' category:
As the baby boomer population nears retirement age, the boomers are eager to make the most of life, and to invest their money so they can enjoy the years after work. Pensioners, too, with years of ...
Most scams are perpetrated by criminals who want your money. But the banks want your money too, and there are times when they might be taking it from you illegally. If you've ever gone into ...
It's something you read about in the news. A person goes to use a hole in the wall cashpoint, and a few days later discovers that his entire bank account has been cleaned out. How did it happen? It's ...
A cheque has always seemed to be a very proper form of payment for goods and services. We write them and receive them, put them in the bank, and assume that because it's written on a piece of paper, ...
With consumer lending and spending at an all-time high, it's not surprising that people end up in debt. Even if you're perfectly solvent, you've almost certainly received spam e-mail offering to ...
Everywhere you look, whenever tax time approaches people come out of the woodwork offering advice about your taxes. The problem is that anyone can claim to be an expert and suggest doing this or ...
One of life’s worst tasks is paying taxes and giving up your hard-earned money. But it’s something we all have to do like it or not. So when we get the news that we’re due to get some money back, it ...
In a relatively short time we've come to rely heavily on ATMs, those holes in the wall that can dispense cash 24 hours a day. The days when you had to hope the bank was still open or try to cash a ...
It's an unusual name, one that has nothing to do with the film. Instead, the matrix scam is a very clever variation of the pyramid scheme and the chain letter, one that's been going the rounds with ...
We tend to think of scams attacking individuals but that’s not always the case. Businesses can be targeted too, and sometimes more successfully, since it’s something no one expects. Thankfully, ...
Offshore investments have long been touted as a way to get a better return on your money and also pay less tax. In plenty of cases that can be true. But there are also many scam artists out there ...
The prime bank guarantee scam is a high stakes swindle that was first warned about in 1993. It has the lure of big money, big institutions, secrecy and playing on a large international stage. But the ...
It's tempting to think that we can get rich quickly, that there's a short cut to wealth. After all, others seem to manage it, and the property market has always seemed a good way to accumulate money. ...
We'd all like to know the future and be able to tell what's going to happen to us. But, in spite of what Nostradamus predicts, or what others will tell you, no one has yet come up with a foolproof ...
Pyramid schemes are old cons, but these days they're all over the Internet. According to a report released by the F.B.I. and the National White Collar Crime Center in the U.S., they're the fifth most ...
For as long as there have been quiz shows on television, there has been fraud. Sometimes it's actively condoned by the producers, at other times they've been cheated by the contestants. However it ...
Scam artists are always eager to take advantage of people. But they're particularly happy to find older victims who can seem like easy targets. These are some of their main tricks, and the ways ...
You can make a lot of money on the stock market. But you can also lose a lot. It's a field that demands a lot of knowledge to play well and one that leaves itself open to unscrupulous wheeling and ...
A recent con perpetrated by members of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church on other members of their congregation highlights a type of scam well worth examining - the church or community con.
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