SCAM Channel

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Shoppers have been warned to avoid a spate of fake websites attempting to scam bargain hunters by pretending to offer heavily discounted goods from the collapsed budget chain Wilko. Wilko is no longer selling goods online and has stopped all home deliveries or click and collect services after calling in administrators from PricewaterhouseCoopers on 10…Read More

My family and I were traveling when we were passed by a gasoline-powered truck pulling a sickeningly eco-green colored trailer with an EV truck on it (above). Why was this new super-duper environmentally friendly truck being towed by the environmentally “destroying” gasoline-powered vehicle? A little research revealed the answer. The driver was towing his super-duper…Read More

Jenny Ueberberg/Unsplash You’ve done it. You’ve finally bought that new sofa you wanted so much. The old one is still perfectly good to sit on, so you jump online to try and get a little bit of cash for it. Every day, thousands of Australians list their unwanted things on online trading sites such as…Read More

A widow has been left with only $4 in her purse after she fell victim to a cruel scam and lost her entire life savings.  Marie Marshall lost $21,000 when a conman posing as a Commonwealth Bank employee convinced her to move her money into a new account to ‘keep it safe’. The scammer rang…Read More

PHOENIX (AP) — Autumn Nelson said she was seeking help for alcohol addiction last spring when fellow members of the Blackfeet Nation in Montana suggested a rehabilitation center in Phoenix, far to the south. The 38-year-old said the center even bought her a one-way airline ticket to make the 1,300-mile (2,100-kilometer) journey. But Nelson said…Read More

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 home that was handling the cremation.  “He said I needed to make a deposit for insurance purposes, and it was urgent,” recalled Motto, 58, who…Read More

A hardworking great-grandmother has lost her life savings after falling victim to a cruel scam. Marie Marshall is described by her friends and family as an “Aussie battler” who has always put everyone else’s needs ahead of her own. She often has gone without to ensure others are cared for, but at 66-years-old she has…Read More

A Canadian man’s frustrating ownership experience with his brand-new Ford F-150 Lightning is the perfect example of why a poor charging infrastructure can become the worst enemy of EV adoption. Winnipeg area-based Dalbir Bala bought a Ford F-150 Lightning electric truck in January for around $85,000 (115,000 Canadian dollars), plus tax.  He purchased the vehicle…Read More

Sam Lipman-Stern was 14, he’d just dropped out of ninth grade, and he needed a job stat. There wasn’t a host of options for an underage kid in New Jersey in terms of gainful employment, and his main interests at the time — skating, graffiti, filming his friends on his camcorder — weren’t necessarily gateways…Read More