Scam & Fraud Reports

In an effort to counter consumer fraud and give residents a way to report crooked businesses, the Department of Revenue, Department of Labor and Industries and several other agencies have established a Web site, www.suspectfraud.com, that allows consumers to check if a business is registered before they sign on the dotted line. The site also allows consumers to report …

Editor’s note: This week is National Consumer Protection Week, and Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster is issuing a “scam of the day alert” each day this week, in an effort to help consumers protect themselves.

Montgomery County awarded more than $600,000 in no-bid payments to nine companies that had ties to county police officers and were part of a controversial tuition-assistance program, Montgomery’s inspector general said in a report released Monday.

The Carver County Sheriff’s Office has received numerous reports of attempted phone scams in recent weeks, one of which included a caller claiming to be from Prudential Insurance and another claiming to be from Wells Fargo.

Bob Geldof and charities deny aid was spent on weapons but corporation executives say reports are credible The BBC is standing by a report that 95% of the $100m aid raised to fight famine in northern Ethiopia in 1985 was diverted by rebels and spent on weapons, despite denials by Bob Geldof and leading charities. A programme broadcast last week by the BBC World Service’s Africa editor, Martin …

Consumers report unscrupulous online payday lenders charging unlawful interest rates of more than 300 percent. Handing over your bank account information to an online payday lender without doing your homework could leave you paying hundreds and even thousands of dollars more than you bargained for.