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Planet Antares Scam Solutions | HUD Warns Of Housing Voucher Scams
The Department of Housing and Urban Development says it has received complaints from potential aid recipients that scam artists are attempting to sell the agency’s housing vouchers. In August, an estimated crowd of 30,000 aid seekers trying to obtain one of 455 subsidized housing vouchers overwhelmed HUD officials in Atlanta. Sixty people were injured in the incident.Since then, the agency reports that it is reviewing its procedures around the country to ensure that vouchers are distributed in a safe, orderly way. HUD says it will distribute applications for Section 8 housing vouchers at its offices anytime to avoid generating crowd situations.
Planet antares scam solutions has heard HUD is also asking people who witness housing voucher sales to contact their Inspector General to file a complaint. The HUD Inspector General can be reached at (800) – 347-3735. Read the rest of this entry »
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Ways to Avoid Interstate Moving Scams
planet antares scam solutions: Moving from one state to another is more common during a recession, as people take advantage of new job opportunities. Some unscrupulous moving companies also use these opportunities to scam unsuspecting people into paying two, three even four times as much for moving services as they quoted in their original estimates.Due to a series of federal deregulations in the 1980′s and 1990′s, the moving industry is largely unregulated. Though the moving industry is nominally under the jurisdiction of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, this agency has few resources to act on consumer complaints.
Many consumers find that moving companies will not honor their “binding estimates” and often ask for two or three times the original quote to deliver the consumer’s belongings after the freight has arrived at its destination. Consumers who don’t agree to pay the inflated charges find their goods stashed in a warehouse indefinitely. Consumers have few resources except to pay or abandon their possessions. Read the rest of this entry »
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Planet Antares Scam Solutions | How To Avoid Sweepstakes Complaints
The Ohio State Attorney General’s office says that state is on track to double the number of phony sweepstakes complaints it receives this year compared to 2009. The office has received more than 900 complaints this year regarding these scams, compared to 622 for all of 2009.Sweepstakes scams promise contestants the opportunity to win prizes or other valuables. In reality, the scams are designed to steal entrants’ money or personal information, making them subject to identity theft. Commonly, sweepstakes scams inform a potential victim that he or she has won the grand prize. In order to claim the prize, however, the winner must pay fees, taxes or other charges. Alternately, victims are told that they must supply their Social Security number or banking information to pay taxes on the winnings. Read the rest of this entry »
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Planet Antares Scam Solutions | Avoiding Facebook “Dislike” Scam
Planet Antares Scam Solutions: Facebook "Dislike" Scam
One of the most popular features of Facebook is its “Like” button, where users can show support for comments, Web sites, products and posted materials. Facebook users have also asked for a “Dislike” button, but to date the service has not yet provided one. The social networking giant is now concerned that users may fall for a new scam that offers users a downloadable “Dislike” button. The only problem with that is the “Dislike” button is a scam.
Users who download the malware application, described as “the official Facebook ‘Dislike’ button” find that their accounts are used to send spam to their colleagues, friends and people in their Facebook community. Anyone can write a Facebook application and no special permission is needed to distribute one. Facebook says it has policies in place to deal quickly with malware applications, but in the mean time, users may find their accounts being used to distribute spam. Read the rest of this entry »
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Planet Antares Scam Info | Beware of Online Dating Scams
Online dating sites are growing in popularity as more people look for new ways to find love interests. Despite the fact that sites often say they screen prospective love interests, many people are being taken advantage of by online “paramours” who are primarily interested in getting money rather than finding love.Most commonly, an online love interest will ask the potential victim to forward money to be used to come to the United States, or to visit the potential victim. These scammers may also send real-looking checks, seeking to have the funds deposited and then sent to someone else. In other scams, the site itself may ask for fees or retainers to provide introduction services, and then fail to deliver as promised. Read the rest of this entry »
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Planet Antares Scam Solutions | How to Avoid Airbag Scams
Federal law requires driver and front-passenger air bags in all passenger cars manufactured for use in the United States after September 1, 1997. Currently, airbags must be engineered to deploy in front-end and near-front end collisions in which the vehicle decelerates at a rate of 8mph to 14mph or faster if the struck object is permanently stationary (like a tree or concrete barrier), or a rate of about 28 mph, if the struck object is able to move and therefore absorb some of the impact’s energy.Despite the fact that airbags have the ability to cause serious injury to unrestrained passengers, airbags have become an integral part of a vehicle’s passenger safety system. Fortunately, most passenger cars never experience an airbag deployment because they never encounter the narrow set of conditions that will trigger airbag inflation. Unfortunately, this leaves the door open to scam artists who can pocket thousands of dollars by stealing your airbags without you ever knowing about it. Read the rest of this entry »
