Tag: scammer
It’s an implausible ruse. Yet we are all human, and many people are taken in by it. In the Social Security imposter scam, someone claiming to be from the agency tells the intended victim that he has been accused of a crime and that his bank account will be frozen. To prevent arrest and preserv…
No longer simply a convenience for shoppers, the internet has come into its own: it is now an ingenious tool for squeezing money out of our wallets. This realization first struck me last year while helping my brother and his wife in Chicago with a flight to visit our mom in Orlando. The reason I…
