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Scam alert: Beware the many ‘Coronavirus Stimulus Payment’ scams that are now making the rounds

Posted on April 6, 2020

As you surely know, the Coronavirus pandemic has already caused a lot of financial pain for millions of Americans.

And unfortunately things are likely to get even worse before they get any better.

To help ease the pain for the American people, the US Congress has passed and President Trump has signed a massive $2 trillion economic stimulus bill that includes a provision to provide cash payments to most Americans.

These “stimulus payments’ will be greatly appreciated by the folks who are suffering the most from the economy’s screeching halt, but as you might expect the scammers of the world are already hard at work trying to get their own piece of the stimulus pie.

There are currently dozens of stimulus related scams being perpetrated. Here are just a few of the most common ones: [Read more…]

Scam alert: Those text messages from HHS announcing a nationwide Coronavirus quarantine were fakes

Posted on March 17, 2020

On Sunday, March 15, a large number of text messages were apparently sent out from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announcing a nationwide quarantine due to the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic.

The National Security Council (NSC) quickly posted a tweet (embedded below) explaining that all those text messages were fake. [Read more…]

Scam alert: Beware this dangerous ‘Stimulus Payment’ scam

Posted on December 13, 2021

Well, the scammers of the world are really working overtime to take advantage of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.

It seems that every week or so another scam pops up to try to separate innocent people from whatever little money they have left after being out of work for almost a month.

A very dangerous pandemic-related scam is making the rounds right this very moment and it’s targeting folks who are still expecting an economic stimulus payment to arrive.

[Read more…]

Scam alert: Beware the current flood of malicious pandemic-related apps

Posted on December 10, 2021

As you probably know, the scammers of the world aren’t letting the current Covid pandemic go to waste.

I’ve already written several posts about various Coronavirus related scams that are making the rounds, and now there’s a new threat on the loose…

Malicious apps posing as legitimate pandemic-related apps.

[Read more…]

Scam alert: Beware this dangerous pandemic related Facebook scam

Posted on October 28, 2021

The Coronavirus pandemic has left lots of folks looking for some way to make up for lost income.

Unfortunately, that presents an opportunity for crooks and scammers to make a few extra bucks as well.

The latest scam to hit the Facebook world is targeting people who could use a little financial help at this difficult point in time.

[Read more…]

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