If a deal seems too good to be true, it usually is. But in a world filled with sophisticated scammers, it is becoming increasingly difficult to spot the criminals. To make matters worse, law enforcement seems to have little power or motivation to track down these ruthless syndicates.
A newspaper reader alerted us two weeks ago about the activities of "car dealers" who trap their prey on social-media platforms such as Facebook. He admitted that he had fallen for one of the scam...