scam

Imagine answering a call from an unknown phone number and hearing "Daddy, Daddy....please help me!" Followed by the voice of a man who claims to have kidnapped your child, asking for ransom money and threatening injury if you don't follow suit.  The thought alone is enough to send chills up your spine, making even the most attentive parents wonder if their child truly is in harms way.  Y

Internet scams are getting smarter and using the people we love to get to our money. If you're a Toby Keith fan, be careful, who's reaching out to you on Twitter may not be who you think.

Whenever I get a spam call, it's usually easy to ignore it, but have you noticed we're getting spam text messages too? I use my cell phone as my primary number and now it's out there and now they're trying to catch me.

If you are giving gift cards for Christmas, be on the lookout for this scam where thieves steal the balance without physically having the card.

It's something we see in movies but not in real life and surely not here in the Capital Region. Thankfully the hit man was a scammer but the irony of whose email he got is hilarious.

Internet scams are common, especially on Facebook, sometimes what the headline says isn't true at all and my Mom fell for the most recent one going around.

We've all been in restaurants and seen the box or jar where a piece of candy was offered in exchange for a small donation to a charitable cause.  Well it turns out, that in as many as 3 states and 300 establishments (including a few here locally ) the money wasn't going to a kids cancer charity at all. The money was going to local loser Deran Akullian from Saratoga Springs.

New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning is being accused of a scheme that involved giving "fake" game worn helmets to collectors. They sell this stuff for huge money, and for the life of me I've never understood why people buy it!

Reading the details of this story left me making a "Note to Self:" Don't keep jar of money in eye site. I would actually suggest maybe not keeping a jar of money at all, really. A safe full of money? Sure. Leaves people less able to run away with it, unless they are Wyle E. Coyote.

Imagine your favorite performer is coming to a nearby venue and you missed out on the on sale and had to buy from a third party. You know you're going to end up paying more and in some cases, the price almost doesn't matter because you just have to see that person or group. That's what happened for Anne Milograno from just outside of Utica, who desperately

If you shopped your little heart out on Amazon.com like I did this Christmas season, you might want to be aware of this possible scam. It comes in the form of an email "from Amazon" that says, “your order cannot be shipped” and to continue, they'll want you to confirm your information...

People are falling for this in droves.  Don't be a victim of this latest nasty attempt to take your hard earned money.