Month: November 2023

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau fined Toyota’s U.S.-based financing firm $60 million for illegal lending practices. Toyota Motor Credit Corporation made it difficult for consumers to cancel add-on products that cost an average of between $700 and $2,500 per loan. The firm also violated the Fair Credit Reporting Act by failing to correct inaccurate information…Read More

Corrupt council staff were taking cash bribes from the boss of a skip firm to allow him to cheaply dump waste at a local authority recycling centre, a court has heard. The employees were given cash backhanders by the waste firm’s owner totalling around £1,700 a week in return for under-weighing loads he was delivering…Read More

Scammers are going to scam. This seems to be something that has rung true since the dawn of time and they just get more sophisticated with technology. If you’re on social media platforms like Facebook, then you’ve inevitably seen friend’s and loved ones lose their accounts to hackers or witnessed a scammer try to pretend…Read More

Cristal Fernandez says someone drained $2,730 from her Chase bank account, wiping out her entire savings. Worse, the bank won’t help her recover the money, which the scammers siphoned off through Zelle and several other cash apps. In fact, she was the victim of a cash flip scam. If this isn’t the kind of case…Read More

SINGAPORE – Accompanied by her “grandson”, an 80-year-old woman went to the UOB branch in Bendemeer in October and asked to withdraw over $40,000. She told UOB service executive Grace Ng that she planned on handing the money to the “grandson” to pay for her medical bills. But Ms Ng, 29, grew suspicious when the…Read More

A “mechanic” attempted to get one over on me and ended up doing significant damage to my car. He was repairing damage from a wreck and fixing rotten vents and floorboards. He strung me along for way too long. Then, when I finally was able to secure delivery, it was apparent that he had messed…Read More

HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) — An alleged mastermind behind a $15 million warranty deed scam in Harris County was arrested on Monday after a year-long investigation, according to deputies. Timothy Willard is accused of forging the signature of at least three property owners, including his father, on their warranty deeds and purchasing their property at…Read More

The House Ethics Committee has completed its investigation of truth-deficient Congressman George Santos (R-NY), and what they’ve found is disturbing. Santos spent campaign funds on OnlyFans, Sephora, and his personal credit card bills, according to the investigative report. He also dropped $4,127.80 for a purchase at Hermes. The Ethics Committee presented hundreds of pages of…Read More

We all know that higher education and college degrees in the United States cost a highly questionable amount of money. We also know that the job market is intensely competitive, and it’s difficult to land a job, let alone one that pays high enough to pay off potential debt. But we might not go so…Read More