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The Latest Scams going around..
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the same can be said for everything in life
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bottled water industry a 'scam'
bottled water industry a 'scam'
Aquafina, / PepsiCo admitt that its water comes from a public water source, ( P W S )
P W S, aka water taps
Fredericton Mayor Brad Woodside, calls bottled water industry a 'scam'
By HEATHER MCLAUGHLIN
http://dailygleaner.canadaeast.com/cityregion/article/40421
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The bottled water industry is one of the biggest rip-offs there is, says Fredericton Mayor Brad Woodside.
The mayor of New Brunswick's capital city couldn't resist taking a swipe at the sector after the industry came under fire late last week when one bottled water company had to admit its top-selling bottled water is just plain old tap water.
Aquafina, pressed by the group Corporate Accountability International, has shamed PepsiCo into admitting that its water comes from a public water source, despite logos on the bottle portraying spring water gushing from a mountain.
"If you want to save yourself some money, get a bottle and use your tap water," Woodside said at Monday night's council-in-committee meeting.
"I've seen people paying $1.50 for a bottle of water that's coming out of a tap in Mississauga, Ont. ... It's a scam. It always has been. The bottled water industry hasn't been regulated."
A few years ago, a popular television investigative news program tested bottled water and found some contained particles deemed unacceptable in a regulated public drinking water supply.
"The bottom line is you turn your tap on and you fill your bottle and you're going to get something that's a better quality than you're paying $1.50 for in the stores," Woodside said.
At city hall, the city's water coolers are filled with water from Fredericton's tested and treated municipal water supply, Woodside said.
The real shocker is that North America spends $6 billion a year on bottled water.
"Turn your tap on. Save yourself some money and enjoy some great water that you're paying for anyway," Woodside said.
The corporate accountability group is pressing for similar concessions from the Coca-Cola Co., which owns the Dasani water brand and Nestle Waters North America, seller of Nestle Pure Life purified drinking water, which gets some of its water from municipal sources.
Dasani's website says that Dasani comes from local water supplies, is filtered using a process called reverse osmosis and is enhanced with minerals.
-- With files from The Associated Press.
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| 07-31-2007, 7:27 PM |
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Re: bottled water industry a 'scam'
What a shocker. I mean really .... I was just thinking about this earlier today, so it's odd that this post should come up. But honestly ... when was the last time YOU saw someone standing by one of several local well-known springs filling those labelled bottles? I see cars pulled by the side of the road, but never Crystal Clear trucks, for example.
Caution: does not play well with stupid people.
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| 07-31-2007, 7:33 PM |
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Re: bottled water industry a 'scam'
there is many other companies that are selling genuine city tap that was just treated to remove the chlorine taste
stupidity governs the world
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| 08-08-2007, 5:12 PM |
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Job seekers beware
Scam artists target people looking for employment
PAUL MCLEOD
http://www.hfxnews.ca/index.cfm?sid=52330&sc=89
2007 08 08
People looking for jobs could find themselves out thousands of dollars if they aren't careful.
Scam artists are known for phoning or e-mailing their victims. But now some scammers are letting their victims come to them by using popular job sites such as Nova Scotia Job Shop.
One local resident applied for a job on Nova Scotia Job Shop with what appeared to be a reputable company, but turned out to be an elaborate scam spanning three countries.
She went through a full interview process before being told she had gotten the job as an account clerk, which involved her working from home. The U.K.-based company called itself Ross Feller's Computers Inc., and said it would send her money to set up her home office. She became suspicious.
"I called the bank to see if they were aware of any scams, and they said 'yeah, but there are some legitimate companies out there as well.' So I thought, OK, I'll give them the benefit of the doubt," said Janet, who didn't want to give her full name because she was wary of those involved in the scam.
Fake money orders
Soon $3,400 worth of money orders came in. Janet was supposed to cash them, keep $200 for herself and send the rest to a man in England to pay for supplies. The money orders looked legitimate, but closer inspection showed they lacked security features and were fake.
"So now I have these money orders that if I would have cashed, I would have been out $3,400," said Janet.
The money orders were sent from Washington, D.C., but addressed from Ontario. Janet wants the Nova Scotia Job Shop website to display a warning to people to be cautious and avoid sending money to so-called businesses.
"Somebody else is going to go through this and they could get burnt," she said.
A Job Shop spokesperson could not be reached for comment.
RCMP spokesman Joe Taplin warned, "There's so many different types of scams going on around now, anything that seems too good to be true is probably illegal.
"I guess the best advice you can give is if you're getting into this stuff where people are sending you money orders to cash for them, 99.9 per cent of the time it's not legit. The best avenue is to phone the RCMP or police or check with the Better Business Bureau."
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| 08-17-2007, 8:12 PM |
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Be on alert for payday scam, say police
Be on alert for payday scam, say police
By The Daily Gleaner ,Fredericton
http://dailygleaner.canadaeast.com/cityregion/article/50733
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District 2 RCMP are warning residents to be careful when responding to ads regarding payday loans.
Const. Ron Jones said a Gagetown-area woman is out more than $1,500 after applying for a loan.
Operators of the scam purport to provide a loan for $30,000 or another amount, but the applicant has to first send $1,500 to the company. RCMP are investigating.
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| 08-17-2007, 8:21 PM |
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Re: bottled water industry a 'scam'
 BlinkeredKitten wrote:What a shocker. I mean really .... I was just thinking about this earlier today, so it's odd that this post should come up. But honestly ... when was the last time YOU saw someone standing by one of several local well-known springs filling those labelled bottles? I see cars pulled by the side of the road, but never Crystal Clear trucks, for example.
I saw a *******truck filling up a couple of years ago. It was filling up with water from an excellent spring. If he can make a few dollars delivering a quality product to his customers then it is ok as long as his customers are happy.
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| 08-19-2007, 8:39 AM |
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Real estate scam almost worked
http://thechronicleherald.ca/NovaScotia/854166.html
2007 08 19
Real estate scam almost worked
Annapolis Valley house seller became suspicious after buyer got aggressive
By SHERRI BORDEN COLLEY Staff Reporter
Homeowners selling their property on their own should at least hire a lawyer to check for any danger signs, the head of the Annapolis Valley Real Estate Board warns.
"Call a professional that can read the paper and look for loopholes," board president Helen Lindley said in an interview Saturday.
This advice comes after CTV News reported Friday that a homeowner in the Annapolis Valley became the target of an elaborate scam after he posted his property on the Internet without the services of a real estate agent.
Ms. Lindley, a Hants County real estate agent, first heard about the scam though the CTV reporter. The Lawyers’ Insurance Association of Nova Scotia recently issued a fraud alert to members about the scheme. No one from the association could be reached.
"A person in the Valley had advertised their property for sale on the Internet and then became somewhat involved in negotiating and getting a deposit," Ms. Lindley explained Saturday. "And at that point of time, once the deposit was (received by) the owner and it appeared through the banking, it was in good faith and the funds were there."
In this fraud, the purchaser sent the homeowner a certified cheque for $82,500, by courier. The cheque was drawn on an account purportedly held by a legitimate company in an Alberta branch of a nationally recognized bank.
"And that’s really where the owner thought this was valid," Ms. Lindley said. "When he went to his bank to deposit the cheque, the banking officer called the number indicated from the Alberta bank and yes, the banking officer was told it was as good as gold. There were sufficient funds; there was no problem with clearing the cheque."
After the seller deposited the cheque, the buyer e-mailed him and demanded he send back about $42,000 of that money for a deal that was supposedly being done in Japan. Luckily, he never sent it.
"If the man sent money, it would be fresh money; the purchaser didn’t have five cents," Ms. Lindley said.
After the seller realized a scam was happening, "e-mails to this owner had become quite aggressive in tone and so the owner at that time became alarmed and went to his lawyer," Ms. Lindley said. "The lawyer, of course, found that . . . there was no such bank. It was all a scam."
Real estate agents keep an eye out for any suspicious e-mails, transactions and money laundering, she said.
"With a deposit or anything, they could always get in touch with the RCMP fraud line, which would listen and take the information from that deposit and then check that themselves," Ms. Lindley said.
"Any large-deposit monies and things like that, the RCMP always want to know about that through fraud alert."
The board will discuss this scam at an upcoming meeting in September
"I’m sure that most of the people that would do this would be doing it in good faith, really thinking that they got a purchase of sale together and that it’s going really good until, of course, you’re asked to wire money back," Ms. Lindley said.
A real estate agent for 17 years, Ms. Lindley has never heard of this scam on a property listed through a real estate agent.
"I’m not saying it cannot be done (but) there are more mechanisms involved," she said. "If you got this you’d start having red flags almost immediately."
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| 08-19-2007, 8:51 AM |
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Re: The Latest Scams going around..
Just when you think you've seen it all, heard it all then you have something like this. I think now that scamming is apart of the fabric of every culture today and we will just have to learn to live with it. Its a sad situation but scamming is hear to stay.
Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.
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| 08-19-2007, 9:07 AM |
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Re: The Latest Scams going around..
yes it very sad but people have to survive whichever way they can it was like that in the beginning and it will continu forever it all about making survival money
stupidity governs the world
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| 08-25-2007, 8:12 AM |
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Greater Moncton Police beat
http://timestranscript.canadaeast.com/news/article/55553
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Beware of scam
Police in Moncton are warning the public to be careful of a scam that's already claimed victims in this region.
Codiac RCMP Const. Chantal Farrah says there have been multiple cases in the Moncton area where people have lost money to what's known as an overpayment scam.
"We've received a few complaints where people are scammed by con artists over the phone or the Internet," says the constable.
The victims targeted are usually selling something, like a car. The con artist will contact the target and offer to buy the item for the advertised price. But he will send a cheque worth a couple thousand dollars more, offering excuses for the overpayment.
The con artist tells the victim to cash the cheque and send money back for the overpayment amount.
But the victim will soon after hear from his own financial institution that the original cheque was fraudulent or has bounced. The victim hasn't received a cent for the item for sale and has also mailed off a cheque for thousands of dollars.
Local victims who were scammed include someone who was trying to sell a car and someone else who was trying to rent out an apartment.
"From what we've seen, (the scam artists) seem to be from outside New Brunswick," says Farrah.
To avoid falling victim to such a scam, people should never accept a payment for more than the agreed upon price, always independently confirm the buyer's name, address and phone number so you know who you're dealing with, resist someone trying to pressure you into a deal and never wire funds back to the buyer.
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Phone scam making its way through Saint John again
By JACQUELINE LEBLANC
http://dailygleaner.canadaeast.com/cityregion/article/78633
September 21st, 2007
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Fredericton-area residents are being warned to be cautious about a phone scam that's resurfaced in the province.
Some residents have reported receiving phone calls from people claiming to work for AT&T.
The callers tell them they're checking the phone lines, and need them to dial 9, 0 and #.
Don't do it, said Sgt. Derek Strong, spokesman for the RCMP. It could be a fraudulent call.
'When people need something, they phone out for it,' Strong said. 'When people call you, there should be a healthy level of distrust right away. And the person who is calling needs to be able to prove that they are who they say they are. And if they can't, you need to discontinue the conversation.'
He said a phone company wouldn't call to ask the person to punch in a series of digits.
'They've got repair technicians that can visit your home. They can do everything they need by computer,' he said. 'If a person stopped and thought about that, it would make no sense whatsoever.'
He said fraudulent calls are becoming more common, and they're difficult to track.
'With today's technology, they can be coming from anywhere in the world,' he said.
AT&T spokeswoman Tiffany O'Brien Nels said the scam keeps popping up. She said dialing 90# can allow the caller to access their phone line, but she said residential customers shouldn't worry.
'Dialing 90# is only effective through a type of phone switch called a PBX (private branch exchange), which is typically used by businesses, hospitals, hotels, government agencies, etc,' she said. 'It would be highly unlikely that a consumer would have this kind of equipment at home, so the scam does not apply to residential customers. Nothing will happen if you dial 90# from a regular home phone -- although you may get an error message.'
She said AT&T is educating its customers to be leery of odd calls from phone technicians asking them to dial numbers, since the phone company can test and diagnose problems on phone lines without the person's assistance.
Aliant spokeswoman Isabelle Robinson said Aliant had a similar problem in the past where people would pose as Aliant technicians.
She said the ploy doesn't work. 'There is no risk to customers,' Robinson said. 'Especially residential customers. You don't even have to dial 9 to get an outside line. So a customer at home, if you're getting a call such as this, no one is going to get access to your phone line to make a long distance call.' Still, she said anyone receiving a similar call from someone claiming to work for Aliant should hang up.
'Aliant does not and will not make this kind of phone call,' Robinson said. 'We don't need the involvement of the customer to do this sort of work to test their phone line, so we encourage people if they get a call asking them to test your line or somehow have access to your phone, to just hang up. Not participate. And if you have other questions on whether or not it's legitimate or there is any phone work that's required or being done, that they can contact us directly so we can advise them.'
Strong said concerned citizens who receive these fraudulent calls can report them to the police.
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