Fraud Alerts
The Fraud Alerts section is your source to keep up on the Fraud that happens in our market. Fraud News, Fraud Stories and more.
If you are a business owner with a website or just have a website period, you get tons of emails. Many of those emails are scams for money. The scam emails below are a backlink scam. There is no need or benefit for paying someone to backlink to your website. Stay away from these! Inquiry: […]
tl;dr If you get a message stating your company is infringing or violating copyright-protected images owned by themselves, it is a scam. You haven’t committed copyright infringement. This is an attempt to place malware/ransomware on your computer or extort you for money. Do not click the link. Do not call the number listed. Delete it […]
You might receive notice of “Copyright Protected Images” being used on your website. Keep an eye out for the horrible grammar and misspellings. Also notice they are linking to GoogleAPIS.comNotice the mismatched emails. One is from Intuit, the Accounting software company. One is for Mailchimp, the newsletter company. Most scams are horribly misspelled, have bad […]
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -– A ticket broker who owes more than $9 million to artists and ticket holders across the country has struck a deal with the attorney general in Washington state to repay the money. That’s promising news to two metro arts organizations that are owed a combined $10,000 by the broker. Despite the […]