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Coronavirus-curing toothpaste? $100 for toilet paper? Anxiety over spread of disease ignites a rush of virus-related scams

Toothpaste that prevents the virus' spread? Emails demanding payment to treat sick relatives? Too-good-to-be-true offers to work from home for Amazon? National anxiety over the coronavirus has triggered a rush of scammers, snake-oil purveyors, and hucksters.

Anxiety over the spread of the coronavirus has drawn a wave of hackers, snake-oil purveyors, scamming robocallers, and fraudsters seeking to profit from exploiting consumers' fears on the internet and social media.
Anxiety over the spread of the coronavirus has drawn a wave of hackers, snake-oil purveyors, scamming robocallers, and fraudsters seeking to profit from exploiting consumers' fears on the internet and social media.Read moreDreamstime / MCT
    by Jeremy Roebuck
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