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Consumer Fraud – How to Avoid It

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) offers a wide range of resources to help people avoid rip-offs, fraud and deception. The FTC website, http://ftc.gov/consumer, has a lot of information on health care products and services, telemarketing, identity theft, online safety and Medicare fraud.

Certified Check Scam

In the real estate industry, as in many, it seems that scammers are always coming up with a new way to attempt to gain from deception. I have recently been made aware of a series of scam operations, involving transactions that start out as a purchase involving a foreign national as the purchaser.