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For scammers, text messages, online ads offer more ways to cheat consumers

Every day, thousands of people fall for hundreds of different scams.

There are the e-mails claiming they have won a prize — all the recipient has to do is send a bank account number. Of course such information should not be shared but people do it anyway.

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