Better Business Bureau

Man Shot And Killed Near JFK Airport Linked To Diet Supplement Company

Posted 05.12.2012

Read More: Better Business Bureau, Fwm Laboratories, Ny News, Gary Zalevsky, New York News, John F. Kennedy Airport, Brian Weiss, New York News

NEW YORK (AP) -- A man murdered during a business meeting in New York City was a top official in a Florida dietary supplement company that has been th...

Read Whole Story

Watch Your Back! These Scams On The Rise

Reuters | Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: Summer Travel, Better Business Bureau, Spring Break, Tourist Scams, Reuters, Scam, Travel Scams, Scamming Tourists, Scams, Consumer Complaints, Money News

(The author is a Reuters contributor.) By Mitch Lipka April 12 (Reuters) - When it comes to large migrations of people ...

Read Whole Story

10 Shady American Sectors

Posted 03.03.2012

Read More: Better Business Bureau, Contractors, Auto Dealers, General Contractors, Business News, Roofing Contractors, Americas Shadiest Sectors, Used-Car-Dealers, Slidepollajax, Consumer Complaints, Business News

Worried that contractor you're hiring to re-do your kitchen floor might be shady? You're not alone. The Better Business Bureau received the most i...

Read Whole Story

Americans Got A Little Bit Less Angry At Banks Last Year

Reuters | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Better Business Bureau, Debit Card Limits, Video, Dodd-Frank, Credit CARD Act, Consumer Federation of America, Payday Lenders, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Reuters, Center for Responsible Lending, Guggenheim Securities' Washington Research Group, Financial Service Sector, Federal Trade Commission, Consumer Complaints, Business News

* Complaints against banks drop 30 pct-BBB * Payday lender complaints rise * Banks facing new restrictions on consumer p...

Read Whole Story

Man Sued After Creating Fake Government Agency, Stealing From Immigrants In Need

Posted 11.22.2011

Read More: Immigration Fraud, Attorney General Lisa Madigan, Better Business Bureau, Fraud, Attorney General's Office, Vytautas Lekarauskas, Immigrant, Lisa Madigan, Chicago News

Attorney General Lisa Madigan filed suit Thursday against a Chicago man who allegedly preyed upon immigrants, posing as an official government agency ...

Read Whole Story

The Top 10 Scams, Schemes And Rip-Offs Of 2010

Wallet Pop | Jorgen Wouters | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Identity Theft, BBB Schemes, BBB Top Scams, Bbb, BBB Rip-Offs, Better Business Bureau, Fraud, Business News

Job hunters, consumers trying to dig themselves out of debt and those desperate to earn some extra money on the side were frequent victims of fraudste...

Read Whole Story

New Rule Cracks Down On Debt Settlement Industry

AP | CANDICE CHOI | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Better Business Bureau, Credit Card, Debt Settlement Industry, Debt Settlement, Credit Card Laws, Ftc, Business News

NEW YORK — Companies that promise to reduce or eliminate credit card balances and other debt for customers will no longer be allowed to charge an up...

Read Whole Story

Checking Up On Nonprofits: Making Sure You're Giving Back Right

The Wall Street Journal | Jonnelle Marte | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Vetting Nonprofits, Better Business Bureau, Charity, Nonprofits, Vetting Charities, Charity Navigator, Jonnelle Marte, guidestar.org, Impact News

Before signing up, do some homework on the nonprofit you'll be "working" for on your vacation....

Read Whole Story

The Debt Relief Rip-Off

Don McNay | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Federal Trade Commission, Charles Schumer, Gary Rivlin, Creditors, Fair Debt Collections Practices Act, Broke USA, American Bar Association, Personal Finance, Lower My Bills, Debt-Relief, Payday Lending, Payday Lenders, Don McNay, Government Accountabilty Office, Debt Collectors, Credit Cards, Debt Collection, Banks, Better Business Bureau, Clare McCaskill, Business News
Don McNay

Desperate people want to believe it's true. They want to believe that there are companies that can easily get rid of their credit card debt. More often than not, they are deeply disappointed.

Read Post

Bank of America Wire Transfer: Lost in Space!

Iris Mack | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: www.wilmott.com, Wire Transfer, Bank of America, Attorney, Account, Interest, Attorney General, Consumer Protection Agency, Better Business Bureau, Borrowing, Business News
Iris Mack

It seems that I have unwillingly made a 10 day ZERO interest loan to Bank of America.

Read Post

Walmart Ad Claims To Save Families $700 Million A Year

walletpop.com | Laura Heller | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Walmart, Greenfield Online, Rollback, Better Business Bureau, Retail, Advertisements, False Advertising, Discounts, Business News

Last year Walmart got into some trouble for claiming it saved shoppers $700 a year just by shopping its stores. Competitors took issue with the claim,...

Read Whole Story

Customer Service FAILS: 10 Industries That Draw The Most Customer Complaints (PHOTOS)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Better Business Bureau, Worst Customer Service, Slidepollajax, Bbb, Business News

By and large, they're the companies you hate to deal with, but can't avoid. The Better Business Bureau put together its annual ranking of the compani...

Read Whole Story

Avoiding Deceptive 'Opt-out' Online Scams

Jason Alderman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Online Scams, Better Business Bureau, Federal Trade Commission, Deceptive Marketing, Negative Option Billing, Cardholder Agreement, Home News
Jason Alderman

Proverbs survive the test of time because of their universality. Take the adage, "One bad apple spoils the barrel." It teaches us that good people (or...

Read Post

Buffalo's Debt Collectors Allegedly Using Illegal Tactics To Intimidate Debtors

AP | CAROLYN THOMPSON AND DAVID B. CARUSO | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Better Business Bureau, Debt Collectors, Buffalo Economy, Buffalo Debt Collectors, Buffalo, Federal Trade Commission, New York News

BUFFALO, N.Y. — When Tobias "Bags of Money" Boyland went looking for a new career after serving 13 years in prison for armed robbery and drug de...

Read Whole Story

Breast Cancer Awareness (VIDEO): Watch Out For Misleading Pink Labels

The Huffington Post | Gazelle Emami | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Better Business Bureau, Pink, Pink Packaging, Bailout Bandits, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, Cleaning Supplies, Packaging, Donating, Breast Cancer, Breast Cancer Awareness, Video, Business News

It's Breast Cancer Awareness month, and breast cancer is not the only thing you should be aware of. The next time you see pink packaging beckoning you...

Read Whole Story

Twitter Increasingly Becoming A Tool For Scams

Los Angeles Times | Tiffany Hsu | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Better Business Bureau, Twitter, Online Scams, Twitter Scams, Twitter Fraud, Media News

Online predators have hit on social media site Twitter as the latest tool to lure victims into get-rich-quick and work-at-home schemes, according to t...

Read Whole Story

Hogwash Alert: How to Survive the Pandemic of Swine Flu Scams and Swindle

Ben Sherwood | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Better Business Bureau, Survivors Club, Symantec, Salma Hayek, Hogwash, Malware, Scam, Swine Flu, Madonna, Spam, Tamiflu, Snake Oil, Federal Trade Commission, Hollywood, Media News
Ben Sherwood

Long before you'd ever come down with swine flu, you'll be exposed to another kind of virus sweeping the world: A global outbreak of online scams preying on your fears of the so-called aporkalypse.

Read Post