In recent years regulators have been cracking down heavily on advertising they consider misleading. The message is clear: consumers are entitled to reliable, truthful and accurate information, and sellers must compete on a level playing field when advertising their products. Many well-known ...
10 Common Email & Internet Scams – How to Avoid Them I’ve been using the Internet since 1997, way before the invention of popular social networking websites like Facebook and Twitter. Since then, I’ve seen my fair share of email scams, hoaxes, and other types of cyberspace spam. I’ve even fallen ...
The 8 Different Types of Card Fraud The payments industry has long been creating new innovations to combat fraudsters in order to create a secure environment for financial transactions. From holograms and the tamper-evident signature panel to card validation codes and EMV chip, many of these ...
Advanced fees paid for a guaranteed loan or credit card one of the MOST DANGEROUS INTERNET SCAMS EVER 1.A lender who isn’t interested in your credit history. A lender may offer loans or credit cards for many purposes — for example, so you can start a business or consolidate your bills. But one ...
Top 20 Hilarious and Creative Internet Scams Lonelygirl15: One of the most popular Internet hoaxes in recent years, the lonelygirl15 teenager named Bree turned out to be nothing more than an actress named Jessica Rose. The YouTube sensation assuredly broke many lonely hearts who thought they ...
Credit cards have been consistently the single largest source of payment fraud for many years. A report on the true cost of fraud found that credit cards contributed to 52 percent of all U.S. payment fraud in 2014. To combat this problem, European card issuers have fully implemented EMV (Europay, ...
Example of Media Bias: Many people only read the headline and the first paragraph of a news story. That is why it is extremely important for media outlets to provide accurate headlines that do not spin a false narrative. The following is a Wall Street Journal headline in the April 14, 2017 ...
5 Common Unethical Marketing Practices: Are You Guilty? In today’s world, ethical business practices are more important than ever. Confidence and trust in corporate institutions has fallen sharply, with 36 percent of Americans seeing businesses as a source of hope (compared to 84 percent of ...
