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BBB Scam Tracker is Important New Tool in the Fight Against Scams and Fraud

BBB Serving Metro Atlanta, Athens & Northeast Georgia is happy to announce our new Scam Tracker

BBB Serving Metro Atlanta, Athens & Northeast Georgia is happy to announce one more way Better Business Bureau is helping consumers and law enforcement agencies.

We are proud to announce that BBB Scam Tracker has been launched! This new tracking system provides consumers across North America with a place to report scams and frauds, and to warn others of malicious or suspicious activities.

And we play as a team! All 112 BBBs operating in Canada and the United States are now collecting information from consumers and processing data, which is shared with law enforcement agencies for use in identifying and prosecuting scammers.

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The free interactive online tool – found at bbb.org/scamtracker – offers a heat map showing where scams are being reported. Users can search using a variety of filters to see what scams are happening in their area, or track a particular type of scam, or even see how much money has been lost. Users can also report scams that they hear about, whether or not they have fallen victim.

For full details on BBB Scam Tracker and how you can add any information, please click here.

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For further details or to find companies you can trust, please visit bbb.org/atlanta.

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