Suspicious offers escalate via email, phone and text
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Scammers and schemers have been especially busy this week with tricky text messages, phony phone calls and email offers that'll have your bank coming after you.
We could all use an extra thousand dollars but unsolicited texts message are not the way to claim your cash.
The latest text popping up claims you've won a thousand dollar Visa card and the website link implies it's connected to WalMart. People across the country started getting the texts this week. Some even complain of being charged nearly 10 bucks per text.
But WalMart's website has long warned the company has nothing to do with these come-ons. If you get such a message, ignore it. Never reply.
And how's this for a twist. An unsolicited phone call that shows up on your caller I.D. as "Phone Scam?" It's an early warning system the scammers clearly don't know about.Turns out it's happening to a lot of people.
According to the Better Business Bureau website, the scam calls are pushing everything from reduced credit card interest rates, to loans, to who knows what in order to get your money and your private information.
Finally, keep an eye out for unsolicited job offers in your email like the one I just got for a Mystery Shopper: "Earn over 300 weekly!" Treat unsolicited secret shopper offers with suspicion. Most are scams that get you to cash counterfeit checks and leave you in debt to your bank.
We could all use an extra thousand dollars but unsolicited texts message are not the way to claim your cash.
The latest text popping up claims you've won a thousand dollar Visa card and the website link implies it's connected to WalMart. People across the country started getting the texts this week. Some even complain of being charged nearly 10 bucks per text.
But WalMart's website has long warned the company has nothing to do with these come-ons. If you get such a message, ignore it. Never reply.
And how's this for a twist. An unsolicited phone call that shows up on your caller I.D. as "Phone Scam?" It's an early warning system the scammers clearly don't know about.Turns out it's happening to a lot of people.
According to the Better Business Bureau website, the scam calls are pushing everything from reduced credit card interest rates, to loans, to who knows what in order to get your money and your private information.
Finally, keep an eye out for unsolicited job offers in your email like the one I just got for a Mystery Shopper: "Earn over 300 weekly!" Treat unsolicited secret shopper offers with suspicion. Most are scams that get you to cash counterfeit checks and leave you in debt to your bank.
