Manufacturers will do everything they can to prevent you from collecting on their mail-in refund offers and half of the consumers that purchase an item because of the rebate will not take advantage of it. The reason we include manufacturer mail-in rebates as a scam is because when manufacturers promote a product by presenting a … Read more
Phony insurers take the money and run when the biggest medical fees are due, leaving you with a mountain of debt. Government agencies and officials have started warning consumers about another insurance scam on the rise – phony medical insurance. They claim it’s become so widespread that hundreds of thousands of consumers could potentially be … Read more
Medicaid Scams steal money from those that need it most, both patients and the people that provide health care services. The Medicaid plan is intended to impart health care to the poor by using tax dollars to pay the medical bills of low-income people. Receiving these funds is life or death for many Americans the … Read more
Simple mistakes in billing made during or after your hospital stay can cost you a bundle or even ruin you financially In a system as complex as our medical billing system errors are bound to be made. Sometimes they are honest human errors that occur when someone accidently pushes in the wrong code. Catching that … Read more
Hospices are the one place that you would never consider that individuals or for that matter organizations would consider scamming the patients and their families. Do you trust your health care providers? Have you ever given any thought to the possibility that your doctor or nurse would take advantage of you and especially those workers … Read more
Living Trusts can be a useful way of protecting yourself and your beneficiaries but scam artists out to make a buck can erode your hard-earned assets. Living Trusts are a legal document intended as a partial substitute for a will. Once created, your assets (your home, bank accounts and stocks, for example) are put into … Read more
If you receive a notification in the mail from an “estate locator” saying that there is an unclaimed inheritance waiting for you, beware. What may really be waiting for you is a rip-off. Just like winning the lottery, notification of an unexpected inheritance from a friend or long-lost relative’s last will and testament can seem … Read more
Even though the use of personal checks has declined in recent years, check fraud has grown causing more merchant than ever to reject them as a payment method. Checks are no longer the primary payment method. Americans are now using electronic payment methods such as credit or debit cards, bank draft and online banking, more … Read more
Be careful when selecting gift cards for your friends and loved ones. Crooks have learned how to exploit this popular form of gift-giving through tampering, trickery and outright theft. Even when the Holiday season is over, gift card sales are a year round business for many retailers. Because of this we want to bring gift … Read more
Credit Fraud and Identity Theft can happen almost anytime or anywhere to the unwary consumer ID theft is at an all time high and many forgers find it easy pickings in the United States in obtaining the information they want. Forgers will fake personal documents for numerous purposes, some of which include: defrauding businesses and … Read more