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Tue, 05/04/2021 - 12:18pm -- tim Vermont Business Magazine The Better Business Bureau (BBB) of Vermont will join the Vermont Attorney General's 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 how to verify a suspicious phone call or email. Bad actors want us to act urgently to their requests ...

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 VERMONT'S 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. JACK THURSTON HAS DETAILS. If you've been worried lately about signs of divisiveness in our cou...

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 from abroad unless the company first verifies they are wholly legitimate. The Attorney General also to...

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 urgency by using the terms “Notice Date” and “Please Respond By.” It also deceptively suggest...

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. Tags: