March is upon us and, boy, did it take forever to get here.
One certain special group of people who did not take the winter off are the scam artists. They work 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to take your money. There are hundreds and hundreds of scams that we are hit with each week, and they all vary except for a few common things. The first thing is no one is going to give you money for free. The Tennessee Lottery is the only organization that I know that does this and you still have to physically go to a store and purchase a ticket. Other corporations will give away free money and items but you must enter their contest. The second thing they have in common is pretending to be legitimate. They will use names such as Microsoft, Apple, Google, and so on to give themselves legitimacy when they email or call you on the phone. I have yet to know of a legitimate company that will call you, especially Amazon. I guarantee this is a scam. But if all else fails, if they contact you and want access to your computer to fix something or they convince you that you need to go by gift cards or send cash, it is 100% guaranteed to be a scam – no questions about it. If you ever wonder just give us a call and we can tell you if it is a legitimate email or phone call. However, 99 out of 100 are scams, and the 1 leftover is…