There’s been a huge spike in phony phone calls, and here are the ten most prevalent scams — which pretend to be from real companies. Beware!

Credits: Better Beware is Produced by Richard Fish, at Community Radio WFHB in Bloomington, Indiana. Executive Producer is Wes Martin.

Celebrate your personal independence by staying away from scams, like advance-fee loans and ransomware protection rackets. And stay safe with the fireworks, OK?

Credits: Better Beware is Produced by Richard Fish, at Community Radio WFHB in Bloomington, Indiana. Executive Producer is Wes Martin.

There are a lot of companies that promise “relief” from your Student Loan debt – and most of them are disgusting ripoffs. You can avoid them, and you can fight them – here’s how.

Credits: Better Beware is Produced by Richard Fish, at Community Radio WFHB in Bloomington, Indiana. Executive Producer is Wes Martin.

Amazing numbers of Americans are losing amazing amounts of money to these con games, and here’s what you need to know to avoid them.

Credits: Better Beware is Produced by Richard Fish, at Community Radio WFHB in Bloomington, Indiana. Executive Producer is Wes Martin.

Here are some basic rules for modern living – this time, things you should never do, but people do anyway… way too much!

Credits: Better Beware is produced by Richard Fish.

Cyber crime is the new bank robbing, and your wallet is the bank! In this episode of our weekly consumer watchdog segment, Richard Fish takes us through what to look out for to keep your dough in your pocket.

Better Beware is produced by Richard Fish, with help from WFHB News Director Wes Martin.

Some stupid scammers tried to hook our News Director, but they’re far from the only ones you’ve got to beware of right now – WFHB’s Richard Fish brings us this report about several fraudulent schemes.

American scammers right here in Bloomington were preying on Chinese students – until the State shut them down – and Chinese fraudsters are still targeting them, from coast to coast.

Several items: A robocaller gets nailed, the EquiFax breach is even worse than we thought, ‘Congratulations!’ is now a dirty word, and let’s hope you don’t get Rowhammered.

Some “storm chasers” got caught; the Nigerian Prince Scam is doing better than ever; and here’s a look at what your stolen information is worth to fraudsters on the Dark Web.