Janet Torricellas, the Better Business Bureau's Yuma Branch Director says, "The main scam concern right now is the online job scamming. Theirs a lot of unemployment going on and people are seeking and searching for jobs on a daily basis and scammers take advantage of that."
Torricellas says among the second most popular scam is identity theft. She says often guests at hotels become victims after receiving calls in the middle of the night from someone outside the hotel posing to work in the lobby and needing your credit card information.
The BBB-Yuma Director says the third most popular is home improvement scams. She says if someone calls you or visits your home advertising their business and wants to collect money before performing a service that's a red flag. She says, "If someone knocks at your door and says you know we see your roof it leaking and we would like to repair it for this amount, but we need half of the money down first and then we'll come back and finish it up, that falls into the home improvement category."
Torricellas says there are a variety of ways consumers may become scamming victims, but the most at risk are senior citizens.
The BBB encourages the public to visit their website and http://www.bbb.org/scam for the complete list of top 10 scams, to report a scam, and sign up for scam alerts.
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