NCL's Fraud Center Releases Top Ten Scams of 2007 - Con Artists
Prey on Consumer Vulnerability, Lurk Online, Make Deceptive Pitch via Phone, Email
The National Consumers League (NCL) released its annual
ranking of the top telemarketing and Internet scams plaguing consumers in 2007, with Fake Check
Scams simultaneously topping both fraud lists for the first time. Fake Check Scams, in which victims
receive a realistic-looking phony check and don’t discover it’s no good until after depositing it and
wiring money back to the crook, have been on the rise since NCL created a category for the scam in its
fraud database in 2003; in 2007, Fake Check Scams were the top-ranking Telemarketing scam and
the 3rd-highest reported Internet scam.
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