8:47 pm in Business Scam, Scam, Scam Check, Scam Checker, Scammer, Scammers, Scamming, Scams, Services Scam, Small Business Scams by ScamChecker
Her daughter, Meredith, desperately needed to see a doctor after suffering a brain injury in a car accident, but health insurance companies wouldn’t sell her a policy because of her pre-existing condition.
8:46 pm in Computers & Internet Scam, Dating Scam, Scam, Scam Check, Scam Checker, Scammer, Scammers, Scamming, Scams by ScamChecker
A Missouri woman was tricked into wiring about $4,000 to someone in England after receiving faked messages from a friend on Facebook asking for help.
8:43 pm in Scam, Scam Check, Scam Checker, Scammer, Scammers, Scamming, Scams by ScamChecker
Carl Nevill, 23, had seen the confidence trick on the popular BBC Three program and decided to try it out in real life.
Nevill approached upmarket restaurants – including Heston Blumenthal’s The Fat Duck in Bray, Berkshire, and Rick Stein’s The Seafood Restaurant in Padstow, Cornwall – and claimed that a waiter had spilt wine on him during a meal there.
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8:42 pm in Scam, Scam Check, Scam Checker, Scammer, Scammers, Scamming, Scams, Services Scam by ScamChecker
The Former Edmonton Oilers owner Peter Pocklington says he was scammed by a U.S. Las Vegas company that invited him to become its director, and then announced that Pocklington had accepted the job when he hadn’t.
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8:40 pm in Rip off, Scam, Scam Check, Scam Checker, Scammer, Scammers, Scamming, Scams by ScamChecker
A man opened a tax-free savings account (TFSA) last year and used it as a way to save a little money when he had it — but then use the money when he needed it. He didn’t read the fine print very well about how it worked and find himself owing $250, though throughout the year his account never was above $5,000.
