Better Beware!

Series produced by WFHB

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Consumer watchdog segment

Host Richard Fish helps keep listeners a step ahead of scammers and flim-flammers in WFHB's consumer watchdog segment, Better Beware!


265 Pieces

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Fake demands to buy non-existant home test kits for COVID-19 and more!

  • Added: Sep 16, 2020
  • Length: 04:00
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Here is a list of basic Do’s and Don’ts that everyone needs to remember to stay safe in our modern world.

  • Added: Aug 26, 2020
  • Length: 04:00
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Everyone should be wearing a face mask in public these days, but not all of them work.

  • Added: Aug 19, 2020
  • Length: 04:00
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Fake messages and phone calls from phony "contact tracers" are trying to steal your identity.

  • Added: Aug 12, 2020
  • Length: 04:00
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Google recently discovered 25 nasty apps that had been in their Play Store quite awhile and downloaded 2 million times. Find out if you got one of ...

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  • Added: Aug 05, 2020
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Phone scammers who threaten you are now insisting you don't hang up until you send the money.

  • Added: Jul 29, 2020
  • Length: 04:00
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Digital Assistants can be anywhere, are getting to be everywhere.

  • Added: Jul 22, 2020
  • Length: 04:00
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An outfit called the "Freedom To Breathe Agency" is distributing official-looking but totally bogus cards that claim the bearer is exempt from face...

  • Added: Jul 08, 2020
  • Length: 04:00
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The Federal Trade Commission has just issued a report on the effect of COVID-19 on scams and swindles over the last six months.

  • Added: Jun 24, 2020
  • Length: 04:00
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If you, or someone you know, has filed for unemployment insurance – watch out.

  • Added: Jun 17, 2020
  • Length: 04:00
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It's a program that lets another person know who you're talking to, see your text messages, know your exact location at any given moment.

  • Added: Jun 10, 2020
  • Length: 04:00
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Once upon a time – like right now, this very minute – there was an investment adviser in Rochester, New York, named Christopher A. Parris.

  • Added: Jun 03, 2020
  • Length: 04:00
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Duke Energy is warning of Disconnection Scams again.

  • Added: May 27, 2020
  • Length: 04:00
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Fake coupons flooding social media and apparently quite a lot of people are deciding to adopt a pet – and trying to do it online.

  • Added: May 20, 2020
  • Length: 04:00
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Police agencies around the country are reporting a gang of con artists who are working a fraud they call, quote, “far-reaching, complex, and well-o...

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  • Added: May 13, 2020
  • Length: 04:00
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Here are a couple of ways you can check things out and know what's true and what's just a lot of horse maneuvers.

  • Added: May 06, 2020
  • Length: 04:00
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The FBI has taken down hundreds of phony websites, but more show up every day. Here's a quick rundown on the most common scams:

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  • Added: Apr 29, 2020
  • Length: 04:00
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Staying home all the time can be very stressful, and lots of people feel frustrated, lonely, and afraid.

  • Added: Apr 22, 2020
  • Length: 03:58
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Well, it's April Fool's Day, and if scammers and swindlers had a national holiday, this would be it.

  • Added: Apr 01, 2020
  • Length: 04:00
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Some of these medicines were even dangerous, giving life to the term "Snake Oil".

  • Added: Mar 18, 2020
  • Length: 04:00