Consumer Alert: Scam artists are exploiting confusion around the US government's stimulus check program to defraud people to give up banking and personal information.
Scammers are leveraging the high demand for the program and some of the confusion surrounding who qualifies and how the money will be received.
. “Many people, especially the elderly, won't read/understand this and will be driving there thinking they will be getting relief money only to be harassed by a car salesman.” “Pretty sad at a time like this people are trying to run scams and prey on vulnerability,” Drake wrote.
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