February 2021

National Consumer Protection Week (NCPW) 2021 is coming up next week, and we’d love for you to join us for some virtual events.

Winter this year is turning out to have its own set of weather-related emergencies — and right now, all in the midst of a pandemic. Lots of us are really ready for the winter of 2021 to be over.

Winter often brings the blues, but when it brings Arctic blasts, burst pipes, power outages, and even icicles indoors, scammers aren’t far behind with weather-related scams.

Leaving broken hearts and empty bank accounts, romance scammers give love a bad name.

You’ve heard of romance scams. But do you know how they happen?

Valentine’s Day is this weekend, so over the next three days, we’re talking about romance scams.

You might have seen that the President recently sent a new immigration bill to Congress. What does that mean for you if you’re a non-citizen in the United States?

Some of you are celebrating your second COVID-19 vaccination with the giddy enthusiasm that’s usually reserved for weddings, new babies, and other life events.

The Coronavirus pandemic has not only had a dramatic health impact, but also an economic blow as many Americans are now unemployed — and uninsured. As a result, the U.S.

2020 was a tough year. Between the pandemic and the economic crisis, we all had our hands full. And scammers didn’t take any time off either — 2020 was a busy year for fraud.

In 2018, we told you about Simple Health, a group of companies that

Using your own vehicle to deliver packages for Amazon and earn extra money. Sounds good, right?

The challenges that COVID-19 has brought include a higher risk of identity theft.