As coronavirus cases continue to skyrocket in Colorado and across the country, scammers are looking for any chance to take advantage.
If you’ve gone to the grocery store recently, you’ve probably noticed things like toilet paper, paper towels and cleaning supplies flying off the shelves again. The same thing is happening in stores around the U.S. That has forced many people to turn to online shopping to order these hard-to-find items. But beware: sometimes, those websites are fake.
The Federal Trade Commission said it recently filed a complaint against 25 counterfeit websites that used real images and logos of Clorox and Lysol products all in an effort to make people think they were buying real cleaning products from the companies’ official websites. Many of the websites named in the complaint contained words like “Clorox,” “Lysol” and “clean” in the web address.
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Debt parking is when a collector places dubious obligations on your credit file so they’ll surface when you apply for a loan or seek a job, making it likely you’ll pay just to make the problem go away. (Saladorec/Dreamstime.com/TNS)
Consumer Confidential: Beware of ‘debt parking’ fake debt planted by collectors in your credit file
By David Lazarus, Los Angeles Times
It’s called “debt parking,” and it doesn’t mean your financial obligations have stopped or are sidelined on the road of your financial life.
Debt parking is when a collector quietly – and illegally – places dubious obligations on your credit file so they’ll surface during a moment of need, such as when you apply for a loan or seek a job.
Complete Merchant Solutions, LLC (CMS) and its former CEO, Jack Wilson, have settled Federal Trade Commission charges that they illegally processed millions of dollars in consumer credit card payments for fraudulent schemes when they knew or should have known that the schemes were defrauding consumers. Those schemes included Apply Knowledge and Tarr, which were ultimately shut down by an FTC enforcement action, and USFIA, which was shut down following an enforcement action by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
The FTC alleges that CMS and Wilson ignored clear red flags of illegal conduct by those schemes, such as high rates of consumer chargebacks, use of multiple merchant accounts to artificially reduce chargeback rates so as to evade detection by banks and the credit card associations, submission of sham chargeback reduction plans, and the use of merchant accounts to process payments for products and services for which the merchant did not get approval from the bank hol
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