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BENNINGTON â Police are reminding the public to be careful of scams after recently receiving reports of local residents being targeted online and by phone.
The Bennington County Sheriffâs Department said Monday that an unknown person â using technology to âmirrorâ the sheriffâs department phone number â called a resident to admonish them for missing their âgrand jury date.â
The caller told the resident âthey need to pay money to make the problem go away,â Lt. Lloyd Dean, of the sheriffâs department, said in a news release.
He said getting in touch with residents about grand jury duty is not a function of the sheriffâs department. âWe do not make such calls,â Dean said. âAgain, this is a scam.â
iTWire Monday, 26 April 2021 11:08 Oscars attract film buffs – and scammers as well
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Judas and the Black Messiah has won one Oscar already at the ongoing ceremony, but the film also has another less better-known achievement: it was used to spread the most malicious files among the films up for Oscar contention.
The security firm Kaspersky said in a statement that 26% of the total 80 infected files floating around on the Web in the run-up to the Oscars were claiming to be download sources for Judas and the Black Messiah.
Other popular films
Promising Young Woman and
Trial of the Chicago 7 were second and third in this list, making up 22% and 21% respectively of the malicious files spotted by Kaspersky.
Fraudsters founded fake church to peddle miracle Covid cure that was just bleach
The Grenon family are alleged to have created a fake church called Genesis II Church of Health and Healing to sell their Miracle Mineral Solution which was actually bleach
18:02, 24 APR 2021
Mark Grenon and his family pocketed more than $1 million from the scam, it has been alleged (Image: Facebook)
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COVID vaccines are free, FTC reminds, so don’t pay for them!
Colleen Tressler, Division of Consumer and Business Education, FTC
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Scammers are doubling down on their efforts to scam people out of their money and personal information. That’s why the FTC and the National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG) are teaming up to remind you: No matter what anyone tells you,
you can’t buy COVID-19 vaccines online and there’s no out-of-pocket cost to get the shots.
Here are some ways to avoid a vaccine-related scam:
Ignore online ads, social media posts, or phone calls from people offering to sell you the COVID-19 vaccine. You can’t buy it anywhere. The vaccine is only available at federal- and state-approved locations.
Single mum looking for love conned out of £35,000 by Facebook dating fraudster
Mum-of-two Eva Kedoula, 53, remortgaged her home and handed over thousands of pounds after falling in love with a fraudster she met on Facebook s dating service
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