Cheryl Parson: 2020’s top 5 scams By Cheryl Parson - Better Business Bureau It’s pretty much a consensus the best thing about 2020 was seeing it in our rearview mirrors. It was a year packed with tumult. COVID-19 dominated our lives, changing the way we worked (if we could), how our children studied and even how we worshipped. 2020 featured a nearly year-long contentious and acrimonious election season and its summer was one of historic civil unrest. As I said in a column in April of last year, “Scammers keep on scamming,” and 2020 turned out to be a banner year for them. The circumstances and events of 2020 combined to form perfect conditions for the unscrupulous to take advantage of stressed consumers.