[00:00:00] This is scams and cons news with Jim Grinstad.
[00:00:09] In today's news, people are more afraid of scams these days, will tell you who and why.
[00:00:16] And a man used a Bluetooth connection to steal 800 gallons of gasoline from a Detroit gas
[00:00:21] station.
[00:00:22] But we begin with a con man who Bluetooth connection was able to rob a gas station of 800 gallons of gasoline. Fox 2 in Detroit explains how the Bluetooth connection allowed the scammers to override the pumps.
[00:01:40] They just open the pump for them, automatically.
[00:01:43] And then cars just keep coming up and up and fill up?
[00:01:46] Yeah, they just meet up with out. Have you seen those ads promising to pay you for wrapping your car with advertising? While some of them are legit, others are scams. Click Orlando explains. This is Ian McLean's car, and he tells us he got an email offering to pay him thousands
[00:03:02] of dollars if he agreed to have his way of accessing your bank, your check number, the amount on the check, I've heard of some horror stories where people lose a lot of money.
[00:04:21] The sad part is most of the people
[00:04:23] who end up falling for these kind of scams
[00:04:26] don't even have the money product from farmers to buyers. The technician went through all the usual steps of having him unplug the computer, then turn it back on. When those steps failed, they told him it would cost $18,000 to restore his computer and open his bank account. He sent $15,000 to a New York account and gift cards for the remaining $3,000 to a California address.
[00:07:04] The scammers said he would get the money back. The man made one last call to the scammer,