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		<title>Door-To-Door Security System Sales Leave Customers Feeling Unsafe</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 22:35:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In recent weeks BBB&#8217;s across the country have fielded hundreds of calls from consumers regarding door-to-door salespeople selling, upgrading, or &#8216;checking on&#8217; residential alarm systems. Six different business names and/or affiliations have been reported: Stryke Alarm, LLC, Vision Security, Pinnacle Security, LLC, Honeywell, GE Securities, and Devcon Security. One customer, in the state of Washington, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BBB recognizes National Small Business Week</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 17:58:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[May 20-26 is National Small Business Week and a time to celebrate the growing business demographic in our country. Entrepreneurs and small business owners are the backbone of the U.S. economy: 60 to 80 percent of the new jobs in the country are created by the approximately 27.2 million small businesses in the U.S. It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Want to Avoid Scams? Learn to Say &#8216;No&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://tucsoncitizen.com/bbbconsumeralert/2012/05/17/want-to-avoid-scams-learn-to-say-no/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 23:20:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Want to know how not to become a victim of a scam? Better Business Bureau of Southern Arizona advises consumer to just say “no.” Sounds easy enough. And it should be. But every day thousands of consumers do just the opposite. A few examples: A supposed telemarketing or survey call begins with the question: “Are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Employ Caution With Secret Shopper Job Offers</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 20:50:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Secret shopper or mystery shopper scams usually arrive disguised as genuine job offers; recently, Better Business Bureau of Southern Arizona has been receiving inquiries from consumers who’ve received suspicious emails and letters from alleged “employers.” With most mystery shopper job offer scams, cashiers’ checks and letters arrive in the mail. “Congratulations! You have been selected [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Telemarketers Impersonate the U.S. Census Bureau in attempt to Hawk Cruise Packages</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 23:14:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Better Business Bureau of Southern Arizona is warning consumers of suspicious phone calls from telemarketers claiming to be with the US Census Bureau, telling their consumers that they’ve won a free cruise. It’s not yet clear to BBB who is behind the misleading calls, but if you receive a similar call from someone claiming to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BBB Cautions Potential Investors to Practice Due Diligence ahead of Facebook’s IPO</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 21:33:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the most talked about initial public offerings of stock in history is scheduled to hit Wall Street on Friday. But Better Business Bureau of Southern Arizona cautions that when Facebook goes public, prospective investors should be wary of the hype and rely instead on research and consider professional advice. &#8220;Many inexperienced investors may be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AMT Auditing Services Broke Agreements On Mortgage Audits, Customers Tell BBB</title>
		<link>http://tucsoncitizen.com/bbbconsumeralert/2012/05/15/amt-auditing-services-broke-agreements-on-mortgage-audits-customers-tell-bbb/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 00:27:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Utah company charged homeowners hundreds of dollars each for “risk free” mortgage audits, then either delayed their promised refunds for months or never paid them at all, customers told Better Business Bureau. Consumers  several states also said AMT Auditing Services of American Fork, Utah, added unauthorized charges to their charge cards and/or forced them [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BBB Warns Consumers of HCG Weight-Loss Products</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 20:51:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Better Business Bureau of Southern Arizona is warning consumers about HCG (human chorionic gonadotropin) Xtreme weight loss drugs that come in oral drops, pellets and sprays. HCG is not approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for weight loss. The only legal form of HCG is prescribed by doctors to treat female infertility, not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BBB urges Consumers to protect themselves from Internet Scams</title>
		<link>http://tucsoncitizen.com/bbbconsumeralert/2012/05/14/bbb-urges-consumers-to-protected-themselves-from-internet-scams/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 23:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While there is no foolproof way to protect ourselves against all emerging technology-based scams, Better Business Bureau of Southern Arizona says consumers can arm themselves by understanding the two major objectives of online criminals: cheating people out of money and tricking them into divulging personal information to commit identity theft. The evolving methods used by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Donors stepping Up to Help Isabel Celis Search Related Charities should be Wary of Scams</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 18:15:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Southern Arizonans horrified at the recent abduction of 6-year old Isabel Celis are responding with generous gifts of time and money. But even when the tragedy is close to home, givers should take steps to assure that donations go to legitimate charities, cautions BBB Wise Giving of Southern Arizona. As the search for Celis continues, donors [...]]]></description>
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