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If your Labor Day weekend plans include catching up the household chores, take note: We've scheduled free community shredding events this September and October to help you safely dispose of those old bank...
Spam levels are peaking again with a rash of bogus e-mails that rememble online greeting cards, messages from your friends and membership confirmations. Worse, they contain viruses that can infect your...
A Seattle Post-Intelligencer article about counterfeit checks that look so real they fool bank tellers comes as little surprise to those of us at the Attorney General’s Office. We repeatedly hear from...
The Better Business Bureau alerted consumers today to a telemarketing scam in which cons claiming affiliatiation with “American Standard Financial” promise to provide a student grant in return for a payment....
Here's an update to our previous warning about recalled tires from China. Check your SUV, pickup or van to see if you have Westlake, Compass or YKS tires. If so, you may be driving on potentially unsafe...
More batches of Chinese-made toys are being recalled because of excessive lead content. The recalled items include SpongeBob SquarePants journals, as well as spinning tops and pails featuring Thomas and...
Some Washington consumers who donated to Veterans of Western Washington or Blind Children Services of Puget Sound will receive refunds under two court orders. Veterans of Western Washington, a sole proprietorship...
Many people think they're too smart to fall for a scam, but according to an article in the current issue of Consumer Reports, scammers continue to lure folks into revealing personal information or sending...
Consumer Affairs issued a warning to businesses to watch out for “Yellow Page” scams in which businesses are deceived into purchasing ads they don’t want or didn’t knowingly authorize. As the article states,...
It’s been a while since we blogged. Many of us have been on the road with our GUARD IT! Washington identity theft tour. Professional shredding companies are offering free shredding at each of our 15 evening...
Spammers reportedly unleashed one of the biggest online stock manipulation campaigns in history this week, increasing global spam levels by 30 percent. News reports say experts have detected about 500...
As we previously mentioned, it’s not just our computers that are under attack. Spammers are hitting cell phones, too. AGO Media Relations Manager Kristin Alexander relates her personal frustration with...
Imagine ordering a couple of replacement credit cards and receiving 2,000! That’s what happened to a New York man. Fortunately, he destroyed the jumbo shipments before the cards landed in the hands of...
If you drive an SUV, pickup or van, check your tires. An estimated 270,000 tires brought into the U.S. from China may be potentially unsafe. The tires were imported by Foreign Tire Sales, of New Jersey,...
This just hit the presses. Fisher-Price is recalling 83 types of toys, including Big Bird, Elmo, Dora and Diego characters, because their paint contains excessive amounts of lead. Under current regulations,...
