Consumer Alert: New Text and Email Scams Target Real Estate Agents
January 17, 2020
January 17, 2020
LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Jan. 17 -- The Arkansas Attorney General issued the following consumer alert:
Scam artists are using trusted names and companies to ask for "favors," and in turn steal victims' money. While some scams use fear and threaten arrest or cancelation of services if not paid, others convince people that they will be paid back whatever monies they spend on gift cards. This new scam uses real estate agents' names to ask co-workers to pick up hundreds of dollars i . . .
Scam artists are using trusted names and companies to ask for "favors," and in turn steal victims' money. While some scams use fear and threaten arrest or cancelation of services if not paid, others convince people that they will be paid back whatever monies they spend on gift cards. This new scam uses real estate agents' names to ask co-workers to pick up hundreds of dollars i . . .