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Better Business Bureau Says To Watch Out For Romance Scams
It s been quite the week for scam-related news. Earlier in the week, we told you about Freeze Scammers, then we got more news about unemployment fraud and scams, and now we wrap up the week with news about Romance Scams.
Friend of the WROK Morning Show, and Director of the Rockford Regional Office of the Better Business Bureau (BBB), Dennis Horton is our go-to guy when it comes to learning about what scam artists are trying to pull on us here in the Rockford area. As you might imagine, things are pretty busy in the BBB s ScamTracker unit.
If you've been thinking that scammers will use absolutely any crisis or situation to try to extract money from your pockets, you are absolutely right. This polar vortex, or frigid weather system we're currently receiving is another opportunity for them.
Even though this scam has been widely reported on, and in some cases arrests have been made, it's still happening enough that Commonwealth Edison issued a warning about it just days ago.
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You ve got to give credit where credit is due, even if the people you re giving credit to deserve to be sitting in a jail cell.
The people I m referring to are scam artists. The reason for giving them credit is that no matter what s going on in the Rockford area or the country as a whole, this group finds a way to figure out what people really want. Once they ve identified the hot commodities, they figure out how to trick you out of your money.
That sort of flexibility has been on display since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. We were all just learning about the coronavirus when these people started selling phony COVID-19 test kits,