BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) \u2014 Biggest scams in your area right now!
Joe Ducey\/Better Business Bureau<\/p>\n
Follow BBB scams on youtube@bbbpacsw https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@bbbpacsw<\/a> We took their BBB ScamTracker complaints for one recent month, crunched the numbers and found a lot of people losing a lot of money.<\/p>\n Most common scams: Online purchases\/counterfeit products. Protect yourself by checking business names at bbb.org<\/a> and run an online complaint search before buying.<\/p>\n Better yet, stick with known stores.<\/p>\n Also common, phishing scams.<\/p>\n Don\u2019t click on urgent links. If it\u2019s a bank security issue or charge you don\u2019t recognize, only contact through your account.<\/p>\n Those were the most common scams.<\/p>\n But these took the most money.<\/p>\n Investment scams, #1 by far.<\/p>\n Scammers contact through accidental text messages or social media and build trust over time before introducing fake cryptocurrency or gold futures trading platforms where the victim’s money is taken.<\/p>\n Don\u2019t know the person? Never trust them with your bank information..<\/p>\n Other big money taking scams we\u2019re seeing, online purchases and home improvement-upfront money scams.<\/p>\n Go to bbb.org<\/a> to check out contractors before hiring.<\/p>\n And if there\u2019s high pressure to get your money now, take a step back.<\/p>\n It\u2019s usually a scam. Before trusting any business, check out reviews, complaints and for trusted Accredited Businesses at BBB.org<\/a> and visit BBB’s Scam Tracker<\/a>. Check out BBB scam warnings at joeknowsbetter.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) \u2014 Biggest scams in your area right now!Joe Ducey\/Better Business Bureau Follow BBB scams on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428793,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152,170623,107585,136680,170625,170624],"class_list":["post-428792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-bakersfield-scams","tag-bbb","tag-investment-scam","tag-online-purchase-scam","tag-scamtracker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
So what are the biggest scams taking the most money in the Bakersfield area right now?<\/p>\n
Scammers fake legitimate brands, offer high end goods at big discounts.<\/p>\n
BBB\u2019s most recent Riskiest Scam Report takes an in-depth look at the biggest scams overall and how to avoid them:
https:\/\/bbbmarketplacetrust.org\/riskreport\/<\/a><\/p>\n