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Watch Out for Bogus FedEx Shipping Scam This Holiday Season

November 21, 2013

'Tis the season to watch out for scams. As the holidays get closer, scammers are on the prowl to exploit your Christmas spirit and rip you off. One popular holiday fraud scheme that we see each year at Scambook...

Twitter IPO Drives Confused Investors to Defunct Penny Stock: Was It a Scam?

Christina Newhall

October 9, 2013

Article, Listing Fraud, Money

Twitter’s filing for an IPO last week was the most exciting thing to happen to social media stocks since Facebook. The popular social media platform announced it would be using the ticker symbol TWTR (makes ...

4 Tips That Explain How To Avoid Phishing Scams and Email Spam

Christina Newhall

September 4, 2013

Article, Technology

How can you tell if an email is real or a scam? Today, both phishing scams and annoying spam messages rely on a technique called "spoofing" to fake their sender information. This means an email might say it's f...

Email Scam Alert: FedEx Package Undelivered

Miranda Perry

June 13, 2013

Article, Scam Alerts

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Expecting a FedEx delivery? Watch out for a new email phishing scam. FedEx released a Fraudulent Email Alert on its site on June 12 warning consumers about the latest cyber threat, describing how the scam works...

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