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I recently got two certificates (which look like those stock or debenture certificates of old) in my PO box from Opportunities Unlimited Publications telling me I had won AUD15,000. All I have to is to answer a qualifying no-brainer question like – “If the Director of Prize Releases contacted You with a NOTICE OF AWARD [...]
Christmas is a busy time for most people – including scammers looking for a festive bonus by creaming money or personal details off unsuspecting consumers. “Although scammers are always around, they have greater opportunity at Christmas to sneak under the radar of consumers who are busy with trying to buy the perfect present or arrange [...]
We have received a news alert from ACMA and as part of our public service, we are reprinting the said bulletin in its entirety: The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission and the Australian Communications and Media Authority are calling on Australians to immediately hang up the phone if scammers call, staying alert to this growing [...]
Unscrupulous telemarketers are offering to list consumers’ phone numbers on the Do Not Call Register for a fee, according to the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA). ‘The Do Not Call Register is a free service provided by the Australian Government,’ said ACMA Chairman, Chris Chapman, who warned consumers not to provide any personal identification [...]
The Australasian Consumer Fraud Taskforce is currently running (1 – 7 March 2010) its annual scams education and awareness campaign. This news bulletin is a public service of SPAMWATCHERS.COM to assist in creating awareness of online consumer frauds and scams. You should be aware of the following more common online scams in order to protect [...]
MoneyGram International, Inc., the second-largest money transfer service in the United States, will pay $18 million in consumer redress to settle FTC charges that the company allowed its money transfer system to be used by fraudulent telemarketers to bilk U.S. consumers out of tens of millions of dollars. MoneyGram also will be required to implement [...]
Australians switching to digital television should beware door-to-door salespeople offering conversion equipment and falsely claiming to represent the Government, the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Senator Stephen Conroy, said today. “I was outraged to hear reports about people claiming to represent the Government and offering digital television goods door-to-door. These people have [...]
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