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06/13/2013
June 15 is World Elder Abuse Awareness Day (WEAAD), and Better Business Bureau of Southern Arizona is marking the occasion by calling attention to the many ways the elderly are victimized in southern Arizona, and throughout the world.
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03/26/2013
Consumers aren’t the only victims of fraud. Every year, thousands of small businesses are targets of fraudulent or deceptive sales practices. Protect your business from scams by learning what to look out for.
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11/19/2012
Small Business Saturday is a day dedicated to supporting small businesses on the busiest shopping weekend of the year. Better Business Bureau of Southern Arizona is spreading awareness and advising consumers to support the small businesses in Southern Arizona.
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11/14/2012
Better Business Bureau of Southern Arizona is alerting consumers to a Kentucky-based company, Career Exams (also known as Career Advancement Group), that purchased newspaper ads in Tucson, advertising employment with the United States Postal Service (USPS).
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10/30/2012
The Better Business Bureau is urging donors who want to help victims of Hurricane Sandy to check charities out before they give.
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10/23/2012
A new scam using the BBB name popped up this morning, and has been received by consumers and businesses across the U.S. and Canada, including many BBB offices.
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10/09/2012
Better Business Bureau and Western Union today launched BBB Scam Stopper, an education campaign to help consumers in Southern Arizona, and throughout the United States and Canada avoid common scams that con artists use to commit consumer fraud.
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10/05/2012
Better Business Bureaus of Southern Arizona is warning seniors of telephone calls from scammers, claiming to be with Medicare, and asking for personal information- like social security numbers and bank account numbers.
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09/05/2012
Better Business Bureau of Southern Arizona is alerting businesses to USWorkmen.com. Purportedly based in Tucson, U.S. Workmen is soliciting contractors around the country, offering a “free” list of biddable jobs in their area for a $100 background check fee.
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07/27/2012
With the worldwide attention the recent Colorado tragedy has received, Better Business Bureau of Southern Arizona is warning those who want to help to be on guard and avoid charity scams.
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07/05/2012
Hundreds of thousands of Internet users may lose their online access on July 9, 2012, and Better Business Bureau of Southern Arizona is urging all consumers and businesses to run a quick and easy diagnostic test to see if their computers are infected.
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06/20/2012
Better Business Bureau of Southern Arizona is warning businesses of misleading invoices being mailed to companies all over the country- including Southern Arizona- by an Ontario, California-based company, US Telecom (UST).
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05/31/2012
Better Business Bureau of Southern Arizona is warning consumers of a scam targeting the financial data of Facebook, Hotmail, Yahoo, and Gmail users. The scam infects its victim’s computers with a version of the Zeus Trojan virus- a malware program regularly used to commit bank fraud.
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05/23/2012
May 20-26 is National Small Business Week and a time to celebrate the growing business demographic in our country. Entrepreneurs and small business owners are the backbone of the U.S. economy: 60 to 80 percent of the new jobs in the country are created by the approximately 27.2 million small businesses in the U.S.
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05/10/2012
This Mother’s Day, Better Business Bureau of Southern Arizona is warning consumers to be on the lookout for unscrupulous florists placing bogus listings online, and in local phone directories.
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