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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. Read more...

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