Holiday Season Scams: How Not To Get Taken
By Michele Wojciechowski, Next Avenue Contributor
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It’s the most wonderful time of the year — unless you get scammed.
“In this season of generosity, people let down their guards and tend not to be as skeptical as they would be the rest of the year,” says Christopher Elliott, founder of the consumer-advice nonprofit Elliott Advocacy and author of How to be the World’s Smartest Traveler.
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