Danny – Type of a scam Employment this company offers you employment and have you do projects all looks very real till its time to get your paycheck. by that time the have all your info plus bank account info and they disappear. do not accept any employment offer.
Janet – Victim Location 08088 Total money lost $25 Type of a scam Counterfeit Product The products they display on their website are not the products they sell. They are cheap knock offs
James – Victim Location 65781 Type of a scam Sweepstakes/Lottery/Prizes I just received a call from Kingston, Jamaica from two different phone numbers and was informed that I won the International Publishers clearing house sweepstakes and ask me if I was at home. Since I was not at home, he asked me if I would …
Jamie – Victim Location 27614 Type of a scam Phishing I answered the phone after they had called 3 times and when they asked if I could hear them I said yes without thinking. I was going to ask that my name be removed from their list. I immediately hung up when I realized what …
Nathaniel – Victim Location 44199 Type of a scam Sweepstakes/Lottery/Prizes Received letter from International European Lottery that says I was chosen for a winning prize of $1.96 Million dollars. The letter stated that I was the 3rd pick from the contest. It says I must appear in Elizabethan, Portugal and contact Dr. Paco Martin foreign …
Kristine – Victim Location 06371 Type of a scam Credit Repair/Debt Relief I received a letter to reduce or eliminate an old student loan for my daughter (20**) It refers me to a website requesting my SS#. https://www.nslds.ed.gov/nslds/nslds_SA/ This looks legitimate but sounds too good to be true. Invo Document Processing ‘s correspondence gives no …
Victoria – Victim Location 83719 Type of a scam Phishing I keep getting emails from Interfax, almost every day. It looks like this: New incoming fax document. You can find your fax document in the attachment. Sender: Antonio Pierce File name: task_000661535.doc Processed in: 40 seconds Date of scan: Sat, 14 Nov 2015 07:10:23 +0300 …
Travis – Victim Location 44842 Total money lost $597 Type of a scam Online Purchase I was targeted on FB through a specific ad. I one a gym and I was starting to look into various pieces of equipment relevant to CrossFit. The deal was to buy a used, lightly battered Concept 2 rower and …
Amanda – Victim Location 28677 Total money lost $55 Type of a scam Online Purchase Saw their products on Facebook ad. Ordered essential oil bottles and dropper from this company in March. Received confirmation email. It’s now May 5th. Have never received product and I have emailed them several times. The website is no longer …
Kelli – Victim Location 19808 Total money lost $50 Type of a scam Online Purchase Placed order for 5-7 day shipping, as soon as order was placed money was taken from account. Haven’t heard anything since called, emailed commented on website. Phone rings once then goes straight to all lines are busy. Have tried to …
Teresa – Victim Location 23185 Total money lost $806.93 Type of a scam Investment Ok like a dummy i thought this app was legit. Where you could play games and earn money. simple right? Only problem was they took 403.44 cents from my account and owe me 403.49 from the games. They have added on …
Katie – Victim Location 72022 Total money lost $521.62 Type of a scam Credit Repair/Debt Relief To start off, I am a single mother who is pursuing a Graduate Degree and currently teaching Kindergarten with my Bachelors in Early Childhood Education. Since I was a young mother, I racked up quite a few credit cards …
Steve – Victim Location 01703 Total money lost $169 Type of a scam Credit Cards This company pretends to be a website to help you file for divorce. Instead it asks your social security number and other identifying information such as height, weight, and eye color. You pay them $149 for their "service" to help …
Barry – Type of a scam Sweepstakes/Lottery/Prizes VERY professional looking envelope, waterproofed, stmped, code numbers, etc. for "security" purposes, good reproduction of a FedEx priority post type, but spelling looks more like PedEx or RedEx. The VERY professionally done letter to my name and address, with a "microfiled" file bar code explains that I have …
Matthew – Victim Location 90071 Type of a scam Tax Collection Caller has a "robotic voice" that I need to immediately call 816-546-7060 since the IRS is going to sue me.
Curtis – Victim Location 72034 Total money lost $100 Type of a scam Other I recently stumbled across this page called ‘I am upset’ who claims to do paid promotion for your content. This page has a good amount of followers so I thought it would be a good way to promote my work. I …
Megan – Victim Location 60465 Type of a scam Fake Check/Money Order The person called themselves Talia Miller. I was trying to sell a drawing tablet on Offer-Up. I gave them my parents’ address and she sent me a check. It was supposed to be for 500 dollars and the check came for 4,000. I …
Ronnie – Victim Location 37042 Type of a scam Tax Collection IRS calling to inform me of a lawsuit filed against me and a warrant for my arrest. Shanna – Victim Location 37043 Type of a scam Tax Collection "Kelly Williams" called, said I would go to jail for not paying taxes. They told me …
Jimmy – Victim Location 53704 Total money lost $50 Type of a scam Online Purchase Hello, I made an album on my iPhone 6 and then deleted pictures. I didn’t know that the album pictures would also be deleted. So I had just lost a lot of memories that I wanted to get back. My …
Kevin – Victim Location 72675 Type of a scam Sweepstakes/Lottery/Prizes I was contacted on facebook by international congress Church Ministries (ICCM) you had to share and like their page to registered to win for the sweepstakes. I was notified that I had won the grand prize of 1 million dollars, $50,000 via check and a …
Clayton – Victim Location 46222 Type of a scam Tax Collection They leave messages saying I need to contact them. And I am being sued by the department of treasury. If I dont i will be locked up by the local police. Then when I call back they end up hanging up.
Chase – Victim Location 49283 Type of a scam Employment iScribes called me and e-mailed me about a work from home job working for 1 doctor, starting off with 8.50hr or 2 dollars a Dr. report. The person who contacted me was Andrea Schwartz | Scribe Recruiter | [email protected] | iScribes.co | 919.280.5102, and the …
Ashlee – Victim Location 43229 Total money lost $3,500 Type of a scam Fake Check/Money Order Initially applied for a job through ZipReceuiter and was contacted by a few companies within a week. One company stood out and I followed instructions to attend an online interview via GoogleHangouts. I added the email they sent ([email protected]) …
Reginald – Victim Location 65781 Type of a scam Tax Collection i got like 4 call today saying they were the IRS and i was being sued for tax or something like that and this was my final call…it was left on my answering machine and it was a recorder.no money amount…the number they used …
Glenn – Total money lost $84 Type of a scam Counterfeit Product I bought Microsoft Office 2016 from this company for 84$. The Microsoft Office product key that they provided me as now been blocked by Microsoft because it was flagged as a stolen product key. I tried contacting the business without success. I have …
Jaclyn – Victim Location 21231 Type of a scam Tax Collection Please see this link. *** This link describes the exact message i receive. I did not take the call but let it go to voicemail. My voicemail message describes a "notification about tax filings from headquarters" and that "the notification will expire in 24 …
Barbara – Victim Location 95662 Type of a scam Employment i have been working for this drop shipping company for a month. they are suppose to pay me a monthly salary of $1800. well my payday was on aug 19th and they have not paid me a dime. i am beginning to think that i …
Ross – Victim Location 60020 Total money lost $9.99 Type of a scam Online Purchase Placed an order and was billed for and item back in September. Have tried to contact the seller a couple times. It is now April. Still no answer and no item. Let my stupidity be a warning to all others. …
Eduardo – Victim Location 98466 Type of a scam Government Grant Facebook messenger received urging me to send money to them in order to receive a Free Government Grant.
Michele – Victim Location 31313 Type of a scam Tax Collection I have received 3 phone calls in 2 hours from 864-634-3095 claiming that I owed the IRS money. I have asked them to stop repeatedly and they refuse.
