Articles for tag: Consumer Alert

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Avoiding African Internet Scams

When you take a close look at African Internet scams (sometimes called 419 scams or Nigerian scams), it’s hard to believe that anyone would fall for them. And yet they do, and continue to do so. The Financial Crimes division of the Secret Service reports that 100 American victims per week fall victim to African ...

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Temperature Change Due to Global Warming

There is a word lurking into our heavens at this very moment. That word is “trouble.” A potentially dangerous situation is evolving in the atmosphere that people call global warming. This phenomenon is affecting not only our ozone layer, but the ground we walk on as well. The Earth’s crust is heating up due to ...

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5 Important Reasons Why You Need Renters Insurance

Even though my friend Bud had rented his apartment for more than a decade, he never thought about the need for renters insurance. He had every other type of insurance, and he thought he was protected. Recently, his landlord made renters insurance mandatory. At first Bud grumbled about the added expense on his fixed income. ...