Feb 12 2020
Success stories in ads for online dating services can make it sound like true love is just a click away. BBB serving Northern Colorado and Wyoming advises consumers to be aware of the limitations, costs, and terms of the services as well as the potential for fraud if your match turns out to be a …
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Feb 06 2020
Hollywood legend Kirk Douglas has died on Wednesday, February 5 at 103 years old. The Hollywood icon (author, actor, director, producer, philanthropist, and goodwill ambassador) died peacefully at home surrounded by his children, grandchildren and his wife of 65 years, Anne Buydens Douglas, according to the actor’s longtime publicist Marcia Newberger. Kirk was born Issur …
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Feb 04 2020
February is American Heart Month—not only for people, but for our furry friends, too! Regardless of whether you live in or outside of the USA, take some extra time this month to focus on your furry friend’s heart health and begin to build healthy habits that will benefit them for the rest of their lives. …
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Feb 03 2020
“Beyond a medical diagnosis of disease, the aches and pains of growing old can be worrisome. But the growing numbers of patients who have actually been diagnosed with dementia, including Alzheimer’s Disease, can cause concern among America’s aging population at large,” says Dan Weber, president of the Association of Mature American Citizens [AMAC]. Most of …
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Jan 25 2020
You may have seen news stories or signs at the airport reminding you that starting Oct. 1, 2020, every U.S. resident will need a REAL ID-compliant license/ID, or another acceptable form of identification, to access Federal facilities and board commercial aircraft. Don’t panic — but do check the top right corner of your Colorado-issued driver …
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Jan 25 2020
The Social Security Administration launched a new Public Service Announcement (PSA) campaign to continue warning people about the ongoing nationwide telephone impersonation scheme. The PSAs feature a message from Social Security Commissioner Andrew Saul. Social Security and its Office of the Inspector General (OIG) continue to receive reports about fraudulent phone calls from people falsely …
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Jan 20 2020
Scammers go to great lengths to trick you out of your personal information. We want to help you protect your information by helping you recognize a Social Security imposter. There’s a widespread telephone scam involving callers claiming they’re from Social Security. The caller ID may even show a government number. These callers may tell you …
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Jan 18 2020
Happy 2020 to all! I hope that everyone had a wonderful holiday season. I certainly did, but I admit, I do enjoy the socially slower pace that comes with January and February. I hope that these consumer fraud and scam newsletters are helpful for you. You are welcome to share the information or forward the …
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Jan 16 2020
Perhaps the best test is whether you want the grandkids as passengers. Older drivers these days are keeping their licenses longer and logging more miles on their cars than in the past, according to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. Nevertheless, fatal crash rates do tend to increase considerably after age 70 and reach their …
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Jan 14 2020
Human trafficking includes: sex trafficking, labor trafficking, and sex & labor trafficking. Human trafficking is a form of modern day slavery that occurs in every state, including Colorado. The average age of entry into the commercial sex industry in the United States is 12-14 years old per the US Department of Justice, Child Exploitation & …
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Jan 07 2020
Scammers are changing how they want you to send money. A scam isn’t complete until money has changed hands. So crooks expertly use all available methods to make that happen quickly and easily. Increasingly, they’re using these four popular money-transfer approaches. But pause and ask yourself, Would an ordinary business or government agency ask for …
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Jan 07 2020
By Marty Coffin Evans The doors to 2019 have closed. Now’s the time to choose a door, or one of many, to open in 2020. Which one or ones will they be? Quotations about doors abound from the humorous to more serious, philosophical or even spiritual. Some quotations can be found above door frames, etched …
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