Sue McConnell, president of the Better Business Bureau in Cleveland joined America’s Work Force on Monday, August 5 to talk about a list of scams to be on the lookout for during the remainder of this summer.
McConnell jumped right into it by talking about air conditioner repair scammers. She said that a certain air conditioning company, who don’t have a home office, will dispatch a repair person from the area to come service your air conditioning unit. McConnell said that if, which is rare, they show up, they will not service the unit completely, leaving the unit with more problems than they found it with, followed by unresponsiveness. Another scam she talked about is a social media type scam where a person would look for recommendations, via an app, for a specific service and who to go to, and scammers recommend their own services, will take a person’s money, and then never follow through on their promises to provide whatever service they originally promised. Lastly, she discussed a “grandparent” scam, where a scammer would call an elderly individual who has grandchildren posed as their grandchild, and say that they need money for bail while on vacation, money for car repairs, or anything else and would take the money the eldery person sends.
Mark Gruenberg, writer for Press Associates Union spoke to AWF on Monday, August 5 about accountability and policy. He discussed the Democrat debate, which took place in Detroit, MI last week, and the certain stances each candidate took on issues. One problem that he saw was that everyone mentioned more power to the working person, but no one mentioned the word “union.” Gruenberg then went on to talk about the government taking accountability for their own words, and also what to do about the two shootings which took place over the weekend in El Paso, TX and Dayton, OH.
Gruenberg spoke about the list of potential candidates for the upcoming 2020 presidential election. He discussed Joe Biden being incredibly high up on the polls for not even having announced his candidacy yet. Gruenberg then went on and discussed Michelle Obama’s book tour and how she has not been using union laborers to set up her stage production. He said that this is a big problem because of her husband, Barack, positive stance on unions and union workers. Gruenberg also talked about labor law reform along with equal work for equal pay laws being put into place.
Sue McConnell, president of the Better Business Bureau, spoke with America’s Work Force on April 1 about new scams that people have been falling into. One of the scams regards bitcoin where a scammer would pose as someone from the IRS or a utility company and tell you that you have to make a payment as soon as possible or you will suffer a consequence. The scammer then sends the victim a QR code that they scan at a bitcoin kiosk linked to the scammer’s account and wire money to the scammer in order to prevent whatever the fraudulent consequence was. A second scam that McConnell discussed was a kidnapping scam where a scammer would call a victim and tell them that their loved one has been kidnapped and they will let them go if they pay off their ransom.
Gruenberg discussed pro-worker legislation being one of the main targets in the progressive agenda for the year. He said that the pro-worker legislation will include legislation on equal pay for equal work and workers freedom to negotiate act. Gruenberg also touched on the Green New Deal and how some Republicans are in favor of using alternative energy sources over fossil fuels. To wrap up his interview, Gruenberg discussed the long term effects of the government shutdown, such as huge financial hits on government workers who had to dip into their savings and 401k’s because they were not receiving pay during the shutdown.
Sue McConnell, president of the Cleveland Better Business Bureau, discussed a variety of scams for students to be on the lookout for during spring break season. She explained the importance of researching housing accomodations thoroughly before booking and paying for them, and to also look up the address to make sure that it is valid. McConnell also talked about “car wrap” scams and “friends and family” scams.
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