Consumer Alert
Scammers Are Clogging Up the Cards' World Series Experience
The St. Louis BBB is warning fans who are traveling to Texas for the World Series about suspicious hotel offers.
Earlier in the week, the St. Louis Better Business Bureau warned Cardinal nation about World Series ticket scams. Now an alert is spreading about hotel ads targetting fans who may be scrambling to find accommodations in the Dallas area. The BBB said the ads are popping up on Craigslist. The alert A release from the BBB reads in part: Several ads for World Series hotel packages on a classified ad site claimed to offer tickets for a Rams-Cowboys game along with the hotel, a tip-off that the person who placed the ad may not be familiar with the teams in the World Series, the Cardinals and the Texas Rangers. Some ads are full of misspellings, which also can be a characteristic of fraudulent ads. “Sports fans may be anxious to get a hotel room …
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Candace Jarrett
12:09 pm on Wednesday, October 19, 2011
If they ask you to send money and all of your personal information to Nigeria, it's probably a scam! more ›