scams

Broome County Sheriff David Harder is on Southern Tier Close Up to talk about issues deputies have been dealing with since the shutdown took effect.

NYS Attorney General Attorney General Letitia James is on Southern Tier Close Up talking about issues associated with the coronavirus pandemic.

New York’s Attorney General says residents don’t only have to guard against exposure to coronavirus but also against coronavirus scams.

The old saying goes: If it seems too good to be true, then it probably is.

Everywhere you turn, there's a scam going on and the latest is door-to-door electricity sales scams. Here's what to look for and what you can do about it.

This is an easy scam to fall for.

A Syracuse man admits bilking victims in New York, Pennsylvania and three other states out of thousands of dollars in various investment and sales schemes.

If you're buying for Mom online, make sure it's from a legitimate website. Mother's Day is a really popular time of year for fraud websites that sell stolen merchandise,and a lot of them seem legit if you're not paying attention. All the graphics and ads on the site might look right...

You guys that are on my friends list... you HAVE to check the profiles of "hot girls" that send you friend requests. Increasingly, every dang day... I've been getting more and more of these type of Friend requests: GUYS!!! If there's a link to her Webcam of sexy fun...

I can remember my parents saving cash any way they could. I remember them putting our garbage in shopping bags and throwing them out at several gas stations making it look like we "just cleaned out the car" or my grandmother asking for her "Senior Citizens Discount" everywhere we went...

Some of the stores we love to shop at use some pretty mind bending tricks to get us to spend more cash, huge shopping carts, having you jam to old favorite tunes while you shop putting the cheap and seemingly awesome stuff upfront and in your face. However there also are some tricks that webstores use to get you to keep clicking the “Add to Cart” button.