Scams

Economy still got you down? Sign up for a free Money Smarts workshop and learn how to stretch your dollar. AARP has teamed up with a bunch of experts including folks from the Attorney General's Office to teach consumers how to spend less, save more and outwit the latest economic scams and schemes.

Washington Attorney General Rob McKenna (总检察长)  is again reaching out to Chinese-American community leaders to help protect residents from fraud and unfair business practices. McKenna, working with Chinese-American community leaders, will host a free public forum focused on consumer protection issues this Saturday at the Attorney General’s Seattle office.

Washington Attorney General Rob McKenna is again reaching out to Chinese-American community leaders to help protect residents from fraud and unfair business practices. McKenna, working with Chinese-American community leaders, will host a free public forum focused on consumer protection issues Saturday, May 29, at the Attorney General’s Seattle office.

A con man is a con man, but to make these two analogous on any level would be grossly unfair. ...

Attorney General Rob McKenna and job seeker Dan Quigley were on KING 5’s New Day Northwest this morning to talk about job search scams.

Local bakeries are being targeted by a foreign crook placing orders for fancy wedding cakes.

In yet another too-good-to-true deal, scammers are advertising free iPads for consumers who sign up to be product testers.

Congress passes health care reform and days later, scammers start peddling phony health insurance policies.

By now we have all seen the attention-grabbing U.S. census commercials that first aired during the last Super Bowl.  ... While in the commercials they’re absurdly trying to plan how to literally capture all 300 million Americans on film, the idea is essentially what the census is – taking a snapshot of America. ... This is a huge project, people. ... It looks like your browser cannot or does not support IFRAMES.

Dawn Pirkel sent an e-mail last message Wednesday, reminding me to RSVP for a conference. However, there was no conference and the sender’s real intent seemed to be to infect my computer with spyware. ...