Scam Alert: Funeral home scam targets grieving family members
Scammers are pretending to work for a funeral home in an attempt to steal your hard-earned money.
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Scammers are pretending to work for a funeral home in an attempt to steal your hard-earned money.
Scammers are posing as funeral staff and calling bereaved families to demand bogus payments after finding them through obituaries, according to the Federal Trade Commission.
The day after she lost her husband of 22 years to lung cancer, Lisa Ann Motto received a phone call from a man who said he worked at the funeral
Crooks will call families and say they are from the funeral home and threaten that services or cremations will be canceled if they don't make an immediate deposit.
Mourners grieving loved ones are being targeted by scammers who pretend they work for funeral homes, asking for more money and threatening to cancel the funeral, according to the FTC.