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Caller Posing as Your Power Company – SCAM

By The Home Economist| 2013-10-15T11:52:06+00:00 September 30th, 2013|Categories: Econo-YOU, Mom-o-nomics|Tags: electric bills, Federal Trade Comission, Green Dot, my power company called and say I didn't pay my bill, power company calls, Scams|

If someone calls claiming your power will be cut off, think twice before paying. In the latest scam, someone from your utility company will call and threaten to cut off your power, writes the Jennifer Leach, a consumer education specialist for Federal Trade Commission, on the agency's site. Caller ID, she says, will display a [...]

Work at Home Scams

Companies sell the dream of working from home but what you buy is a nightmare. The dream of making money from home - on our own schedules, wearing our own pajamas (actually make that someone else's pajamas, ours are ripped) - is so common it's in some cultures considered a maternal instinct. But many of the companies selling [...]

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