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The call will be foreboding. It will seem official. And it will come with a direct order: pay up or face arrest. In reality, these calls are a scam by those impersonating local sheriff deputies by ...

WXIN/WTTV – According to the newly-formed National Task Force on Fraud and Scam Prevention, Americans are losing $158 billion a year to scams and fraud, claiming about 57,000 new victims every day. So ...

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KJCT) - You might have noticed an increase in scam calls recently. A new report by the Colorado Public Interest Research Group said spam robocalls have hit a six year high.