scams

Missourians are getting calls from scammers claiming to be state highway patrol officers. The real Missouri State Highway Patrol has issued an urgent warning about these villains.

The FBI and Missouri Attorney General are already issuing warnings about holiday shopping scams to watch out for in Missouri.

There's a scam making the rounds in Illinois that can cause you to break the law and get arrested.

Have you gotten a package recently that you didn't order? If so, you may be a victim of a vicious new scam that's going around Missouri that will steal all the apps along with passwords off of your phone.

Whoever is responsible for this should be punished with everything the law allows. A widow in Illinois lost $1 million dollars in what the FBI describes as a "pig fattening and butchering" scam.

Just because someone claims to be a US Marshals does not make them one. The real US Marshals are warning Missouri residents there are currently fake agents spoofing them trying to rip them off.

This is the time of year in Illinois when many are trying to hurry to finish home repair projects before the colder weather arrives. Criminals know this which is why the state of Illinois is warning of sinister home repair scams happening right now designed to rip you off.

Just give me 5 minutes alone with the people that come up with these scams and everything will be fine. Don't I wish. While I wait for that golden opportunity, I can at least warn you to beware of a vicious text scam involving the Illinois Tollway that is ripping thousands of Illinoisans off.

It's bad enough that perpetrators are trying to rob people, but it's even worse that they're preying on the lonely. There are new warnings for women in Missouri of a text message scam that is meant to break their hearts and rob them blind, too.

Obviously no scam is good, but I would argue the worst are the ones that prey on emotions to rob a person blind or worse. That's why there are urgent warnings for Illinois women to be aware there are current ploys that use text messages to lure victims into romance and banking problems.