This document summarizes 5 common scams and provides tips to avoid them. The scams include fake emails from the postal service about undelivered packages that contain viruses, scammers claiming problems with credit cards to get personal information from travelers, surveys that promise free gifts but are really after private details for identity theft, phone calls appearing to be from your own number offering to lower credit card rates which are actually phishing for financial data, and bogus online tech support pop-ups that aim to access your computer remotely and charge expensive fees for unnecessary fixes. The document encourages people to contact their local Better Business Bureau or type in their zip code on the BBB website for more information on avoiding scams.

1. 5Scams you
can avoid
Information derived from the Better Business
Bureau of Akron

2. You have a
package!
The US Postal Service is
warning residents about fake
emails using their name.The
messages claim to be alerts
about an undelivered
package, but they really
carry a virus.
http://goo.gl/RNXsAB

3. There’s a
problem with
your credit
card.
Booking a hotel stay for a
summer #vacation? Before
you check in, check out how
scammers try to take
advantage of travelers.
http://www.consumer.ftc.go
v/blog/hazards-hoteling

4. Free gift for
completing
this survey!
In this scam, con artists are
really after information that
can be used for identity
theft.
http://goo.gl/tFdw8V

5. Caller ID shows
YOUR
number!
“Here is how the scam works:
Your phone rings, the number
looks familiar.You answer, and
a computerized voice claims to
have methods to lower your
credit card interest rates …”
http://goo.gl/2UklWY

6. Please go to
your computer
–we need to
check for a
virus!
Use the link below to see
what you need to know about
online "tech support" scams
that cost unsuspecting locals
thousands of dollars every
year.
http://goo.gl/sZaz8M

7. For more
information
 Contact your local BBB at bbb.org
 Type in your ZIP code and you will be directed toYOUR BBB!