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Scams Galore

July 28th, 2016 by flanews

It can be a helpless, frustrating feeling.  You get a call from the bank or look at your account and see weird charges or that all your money is gone…but you didn’t spend it. As Matt Galka tells us, fraud and scams just seem to be increasing in the state.

Greg Tish knows what it’s like to see charges on his credit card…that he didn’t make.

“I guess they just wanted a nice little vacation so they charged a hotel room up in Philadelphia,” he said.

Unfortunately, it’s a common thing in Florida. The state leads the nation in credit card fraud complaints, with the number of complaints more than doubling since 2011.

“It’s very nerve racking to think that, at any moment, there’s someone looking to scam you, somebody looking to take what you’ve worked so hard for and to make it their own,” said Tish.

But credit card schemes aren’t the only headaches the state has to deal with. Whitney Ray with the Attorney General’s office says Florida lawyers are now being targeted by an impostor scam.

“They were claiming that the Attorney General’s office had a complaint against their business, and they had a link that we believe to be malware,” said Ray.

The best advice; if an email seems suspicious, don’t click anything.

“If your information, if you’ve given  your information to a company, if you’ve done business online, then you are at risk of becoming a victim of identify theft or credit card theft, so it’s important to always check your statements, put an alert on your card, check your credit score,” said Ray.

The attorney general’s office has already received more than 50 complaints from Florida lawyers since Wednesday night.

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