scams

Every time a new technology comes out, a new scam seems to pop up to take advantage. And warnings are coming out that scammers are targeting American consumers who are unfamiliar with the new credit card chip technology that a lot of us are starting to see.

Have you seen the recent Facebook "quiz", where you can create a word cloud of your most used words of the year? Fun, right? There's one big problem, though, it's a privacy nightmare.

You'd better double-check your recent online hotel reservation to make sure that you're getting exactly what you've signed up for. A new study conducted by the American Hotel & Lodging Association shows that 6 percent of consumers who booked hotels online were duped by a bogus third-party online travel agency. Th...

We have a warning for you as an old scam is making new rounds in South Jersey lately.

Phone scammers masquerading as law enforcement representatives enter their busiest time of the year, and Ocean County Prosecutor Joseph Coronato is advising you not to fall for it.

Imagine this situation - you're on a major NJ highway on your way home after a long, busy day of work. You come upon orange cones blocking the road, an unmarked car on the side of the highway, and a man standing by the hastily set up roadblock. The driver who captured this video did absolutely the right thing - he drove away and called 911, but it could have ended much worse. Watch the actual inci

With the explosive popularity of the new iPhone 6 line and Apple's iOS 8, the digital landscape is ripe for scammers to prey on unsuspecting customers.

Most of us in Ocean County commute by toll road almost every single day. While we usually don't think twice about it, when a friend of mine got a letter in the mail accusing him of a toll violation, he immediately questioned the letter. And it's a good thing too, because it looks like it may be fishy.

Thanks to the Internet, scammers have a much easier time taking advantage of would-be summer vacationers.

Here's the scenario - you're looking for a summer rental, so you do what a lot of us do these days - you start poking around the internet. You find a great looking house in the perfect area, and the rent looks to be more than reasonable. You contact the landlord, put down a deposit, and then never hear from them again. Unfortunately, it's a story that's getting more and more common these days. Rea