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Herb Weisbaum
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Contributing Editor, Consumers' Checkbook
Seattle
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By Herb Weisbaum Verified| KOMO-TV (Seattle, WA) Verified SEATTLE — If you receive a text message requesting payment for outstanding toll charges, assume it’s a scam. The volume of these fake messages has surged since Checkbook first warned about them in June 2024, when the FBI warned it had received thousands of complaints from at least three states. The scam has now spread “coast to coast,” according to a consumer alert posted earlier this year from the Federal Trade Commission.
By Herb Weisbaum Verified| KOMO-TV (Seattle, WA) Verified Buying a late-model used vehicle will become even more challenging as prices rise due to declining supply and higher demand. In early March, the average price for a used car hovered around $25,000, according to Cox Automotive. Industry experts told Consumers’ Checkbook that a sharp decline in lease volume during the pandemic is largely to blame for higher prices. Fewer leases in recent years have led to the “lowest level of three-year-old lease returns since 2013,” according to Edmunds.
By Herb Weisbaum Verified| KOMO-TV (Seattle, WA) Verified SEATTLE — If you receive a text message requesting payment for outstanding toll charges, assume it’s a scam. The volume of these fake messages has surged since Checkbook first warned about them in June 2024, when the FBI warned it had received thousands of complaints from at least three states. The scam has now spread “coast to coast,” according to a consumer alert posted earlier this year from the Federal Trade Commission.
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Consumers' Checkbook
An independent and unbiased nonprofit organization dedicated to helping consumers find high-quality, fairly priced service providers in their communities. Unlike other ratings organizations, Checkbook carries no advertising on its websites nor in its publications and accepts no referral fees from the companies and professionals it evaluates so there can be no question of bias. Checkbook is supported entirely by subscription payments and donations from individual consumers who subscribe to its publications and website, and by fees for its survey and information services. To subscribe, please visit https://www.checkbook.org/subscribe
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