Don’t fall for e-mail easy-money swindles

Don’t fall for e-mail easy-money swindles
Many of you in the last couple of weeks have e-mailed me with concerns regarding supposed money-making opportunities that you have received by e-mail. With the economy being what it is, many people are looking for ways to make some money or supplement their income. Two of the schemes, in particular, keep coming up. As I have said for the last six years, if it sounds too good to be true, it …
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Scammers target desperate job seekers
Schemes that ask for money to set up clients in jobs that never materialize are proliferating, watchdogs say. One in a series of occasional reports about the U.S. unemployment crisis.
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State budget plan shuffles money, uses stimulus funds to cover 2 million gap
Gov. Bill Ritter’s latest budget re-balancing plan, not unlike some of his previous actions, relies heavily on one-time money shuffles and federal stimulus funds.
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