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The Vermont Attorney General’s Consumer Assistance Program has released a video and toolkit to help businesses identify and avoid imposter email scams.

The Big Picture - On November 19, the House of Representatives passed the Build Back Better Act (BBB) (H.R. 5376) by a vote of 220–213. The BBB contains a number of...

Friday, Oct. 1, 2021 Booster shots now available for more Vermonters MONTPELIER —The Agency of Human Services and the Department of Health announced that Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine booster doses are now available to people in Vermont who are 65 and ...

Settlement Requires Poulin Auto to Pay $15,000 in Consumer Restitution Vermont Business Magazine Attorney General TJ Donovan today announced a settlement with Barre auto dealer Poulin Auto Sales, Inc over complaints filed with the Attorney General’s Consumer Assistance Program (CAP) concerning Poulin Auto’s business practices, including a deceptive direct mail advertisement. As part of the settlement, Poulin Auto agreed to change certain business practices, pay a civil penalty of $5,000 to ...

Burlingtonians, beware: theres a new scam call making the rounds in the Queen City.  This time, the caller is purporting to be a Burlington Electric Department employee. The caller threatens to shut off customers electric service if they dont agree to provide personal information or payment, the utility wrote May 7 in a post on Twitter.  Burlington Electric Department had received more than one report of the attempted scam.  "We recommend you dont provide payment or personal info; engage w...

Tue, 05/04/2021 - 12:18pm -- tim Vermont Business Magazine The Better Business Bureau (BBB) of Vermont will join the Vermont Attorney Generals Office and AARP Vermont for a virtual forum designed to inform and empower consumers on the latest scam tactics and how best to avoid them. This virtual event will be held on Wednesday, May 19, at 3 PM EST. It is free and open to all. Register here. "The team at the Vermont Attorney General’s Consumer Assistance Program (CAP) wants consumers to know ho...

Vermont attorney general launches push to disconnect robocall scammers Share Updated: 12:08 PM EDT Apr 29, 2021 Share Updated: 12:08 PM EDT Apr 29, 2021 Hide Transcript Show Transcript VERMONTS ATTORNEY GENERAL SAYS... LAST MONTH CONSUMERS RECEIVED.... ABOUT 5-MILLION áUNWANTED ROBOCALLS... MOSTLY SCAM ATTEMPTS. BUT NOW, THE A.G. IS POINTING TO A LANDMARK SETTLEMENT. WHICH HE SAYS COULD PROVIDE A PATHWAY TO FUTURE ENFORCEMENT OF THESE CRIMINAL CALLERS. ...

New AGO Robocall Team Formed to Assist with Ongoing Efforts to Stop Scams Vermont Business Magazine Attorney General TJ Donovan today announced a settlement with a small Florida-based company that routed thousands of foreign scam robocalls to Vermonters. The Attorney General investigated the company—Strategic IT Partner—after reports of scam robocalls to the Vermont Consumer Assistance Program (CAP). The settlement will prevent Strategic IT Partner from bringing any robocalls into the US fr...

Wed, 03/17/2021 - 3:31pm -- tim Vermont Business Magazine Attorney General TJ Donovan and Secretary of State Jim Condos are warning Vermont businesses that a Florida-based company, Centurion Filing Services, LLC, calling itself VT Certificate Service, is mailing businesses a request for payment for a “certificate of good standing.” The mailing—which looks like a bill requesting a “fee” of $87.50—has the recipient’s information pre-printed on the form and creates a false sense of u...

More than 5,000 Vermonters filed scam reports with the Consumer Assistance Program in 2020.   The most common, for the second year, is a scam claiming your Social Security number has been compromised.  The next most prevalent scam is the so-called “free money” scam in which you are told you’ve won money but must pay a fee or taxes upfront in order to collect the prize.   According to Attorney General T.J. Donovan’s office, 249 Vermonters lost about $1.5 million in 2020 to scammers. T...