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05/27/2009
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04/29/2009
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01/19/2009
Better Business Bureau Serving Southern Alberta and East Kootenays is warning of an immigration scam seeking to dupe hundreds of dollars from unsuspecting workers.
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01/06/2009
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12/04/2008
Better Business Bureau is warning consumers to keep their guard up and their wits about them in order to fend off a new string of phishing e-mails making the rounds this holiday season.
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12/02/2008
The Better Business Bureau is warning consumers of a number of websites purportedly selling personal electronics, but failing to deliver product after receiving payment by wire transfer.
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11/19/2008
BBB Serving Southern Alberta and East Kootenays is once again warning about paying bills for unordered CD-ROM directories, as an Ottawa-based operation solicits local businesses.
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10/29/2008
October 29, 2008 – Calgary Alberta – Better Business Bureau Serving Southern Alberta and East Kootenays is warning of a new twist on a familiar scam that may cost area residents thousands of dollars.
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05/13/2008
A common scam, active nationwide for several years, continues to cost local businesses money and time as perpetrators become more advanced.
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02/01/2008
The Better Business Bureau of Southern Alberta has learned of a potential scam involving the much sought-after Apple iPhone, a device not yet widely available in Canada.
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05/02/2007
In recent years, instances of foreign lottery fraud have continued to rise. Fortunately, more and more consumers across the U.S. and Canada have been contacting the Better Business Bureau to inquiry about the legitimacy of notices they received by mail and/or e-mail announcing they have won substantial sums of money in a foreign lottery. In fact, in 2006, the Better Business Bureau System received nearly 8,200 inquiries from consumers on foreign lottery scams, a 14 percent increase from the previous year.
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01/26/2007
The news stories seem incredible. The personal information of thousands of Canadian bank customers is erroneously faxed to a US company over a three year period; hackers break into the secure data base of a major US retail company hijacking the personal information of millions of Canadians; a backup hard drive containing the personal information and financial records of hundreds of thousands of Canadian investors is lost in transit.
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