This year’s top ten scams looks at not only those scams that affected us in 2010, but what to watch out for in 2011.
One of the biggest trends is in scam artists taking advantage of the public’s eagerness to embrace new technologies and services, like social media and online commerce, which allows them to cast a net over countless victims from a safe distance.
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