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Shoppers have taken a lot of their gifting online this year, thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, but even there, Grinches are lurking with scams. The Better Business Bureau serving Northeast Georgia reports they are seeing phishing scams creep up in relation to online shopping websites. "People are buying, theyre buying online, theyre using PayPal accounts, theyre shopping on Amazon, and all of a sudden, they either get an email, a call, or a text message saying theres been suspicious activity in ...

Online scams increase as more people look to adopt a "quarantine pet" According to the Better Business Bureaus data, more than $3 million dollars have been lost to pet scams in 2020. Author: Nixon Norman Updated: 3:09 PM EST December 14, 2020 HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — "Theyre projecting that over three million dollars will have been lost to pet scams over this COVID period. And thats a huge increase over prior years," said Tricia Pruitt, Regional Vice President for Cu...

Liberty Bank names new CIO, executive vice president Dec. 11, 2020 FacebookTwitterEmail Hope UtterbeckContributed photo MIDDLETOWN - David W. Glidden, president and CEO of Liberty Bank of Middletown, Connecticut, today announced the hiring of Hope Utterbeck, a longtime, highly-regarded IT leader who joins Liberty as executive vice president and Chief Information Officer, according to a statement. Utterbeck, who has extensive multi-industry IT experience, comes to Liberty from Webster Bank, wher...

Dec 11, 2020 Dec 11, 2020 The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically increased demand for pets as people seek adding a pet to the family to ease the loneliness and tension of prolonged time at home. Many feel that they now have more time to train a puppy. With this rising demand has come a spike in pet scams, in which an online search ends with a would-be pet owner paying hundreds of dollars or more to purchase a pet that ultimately doesn’t exist. Better Business Bureau (BBB) advis...

Social media advertising is an effective way for small business to get the word out about their products. Unfortunately, the same goes for scams. BBB Scam Tracker (https://www.bbb.org/ScamTracker) has received thousands of complaints about misleading Facebook and Instagram ads. In fact, the 2018 BBB Scam Tracker Risk Report found that online purchase scams were the most common cons reported to Scam Tracker and the category with the most victims, and online purchase scams have spiked during the ...

  Milwaukee , Wis. – Social media advertising is an effective way for small businesses to get the word out about their products. Unfortunately, the same goes for scams. BBB Scam Tracker (BBB.org/ScamTracker) has received thousands of complaints about misleading Facebook and Instagram ads. In fact, the 2018 BBB Scam Tracker Risk Report found that online purchase scams were the most common cons reported to Scam Tracker and the category with the most victims. How the Scam Works Look out...