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Page 4 - shelby shopper & info - 704/484-1047 www.shelbyinfo.com Thursday, September 23-September 29, 2021 6 DAY FORECAST CLEVELAND COUNTY'S CLEVELAND COUNTY'S For Up To The Minute Cleveland County Weather Go To shelbyinfo.com TRANSMISSION Now Serving Cherokee, Cleveland Now Serving Cherokee, Cleveland and Rutherford Counties and Rutherford Counties 40+ Years of Experience! We also work on Heavy Duty Diesel Transmission and Transfer Cases. WE'LL GET YOU IN GEAR, CAUSE SHIFT HAPPENS! See Us On Google See Us On Google and Facebook and Facebook • Foreign and Domestic • Foreign and Domestic • CVT Transmission • CVT Transmission • Heavy Duty • Heavy Duty Transmission & Transmission & Transfer Cases Transfer Cases • 12 Month, 12,000 • 12 Month, 12,000 Miles Warranty Miles Warranty on all Rebuilt on all Rebuilt Transmissions Transmissions carolinatrans@att.net 1807 Cherokee Ave., Gaffney, SC 29340 1807 Cherokee Ave., Gaffney, SC 29340 73 47 Sunny 73 46 Sunny 75 50 Mostly Sunny Sunny 79 52 Sunny 80 53 Sunny THU SEPT. 23 FRI SEPT. 24 SAT SEPT. 25 SUN SEPT. 26 MON SEPT. 27 TUES SEPT. 28 78 49 _ 704-487-8114 • DonGibsonTheatre.com 318 South Washington St. • Shelby, NC UPCOMING SHOWS UPCOMING SHOWS MENTION DISCOUNT CODE 9911 For A 10% Ticket Discount When Ordering Online Or In Person. ©CommunityFirstMedia ©CommunityFirstMedia LEGACY Motown Revue Saturday, Sept. 25 th 8:00 PM Tickets Available JAMES GREGORY Friday, October 1 st 8:00 PM Tickets Available CARLENE CARTER Friday, October. 22 nd 8:00 PM Tickets Available EDWIN McCAIN Friday, Nov. 26 th 8:00 PM Tickets Available Sale Conducted By: Elliott/Dixon Auctions LLC. 1512 Burke Road • Shelby, NC 28152 704-472-5000 NCAL#3806 NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ACCIDENTS Go to auctionzip.com (7760) to view listing and see pictures. SAT., October 2 nd - 10:00 am 511 Gold St., Shelby PARCEL # 22732 Lot is 75' by 180' House is approximately 976 sq. ft. with 2 Bedrooms, 1 Bath, Kitchen, Living Room/ Dining Room & Basement. 2 TIMES & 2 PLACES REAL ESTATE AUCTION SAT., October 2 nd - 11:00 am Second St. & 821 Third St. Kings Mountain (LOCATED BETWEEN FAIRVIEW & CATHERINE) PARCEL # 13342 (.98 Acres) PARCEL # 13345 (.24 Acres) Will be sold together • Zoned R6 Residental TERMS: 10% DOWN DAY OF AUCTION WITH THE REMAINDER IN 30 DAYS OR AT CLOSING Attorney R. John Bridges has commissioned Elliott/Dixon Auctions LLC to sell these pieces of Real Estate. E m p l o y - ment scams are on the rise in the turbu- lent job mar- ket created by the COVID-19 pandemic, a new Bet- ter Business Bureau® (BBB®) study finds. BBB warns job seekers to verify employment offers to avoid illegal jobs, iden- tity theft and fake checks to which millions are ex- posed annually. The in-depth investiga- tive study -- Job Scams: BBB study finds job scams increased dur- ing pandemic, warns job seekers to verify employ- ment offers to avoid il- legal jobs, identity theft and fake checks -- details the many forms employ- ment fraud takes and the scams that often result. Job scams have been a problem for years. In 2020, BBB estimated 14 million victims with $2 billion in direct losses re- lated to job scams. Last year, the 2020 BBB Em- ployment Scams Report by BBB Institute for Mar- ketplace Trust found job scams to be the riskiest of all the scams they tracked in 2018 and 2019. How- ever, BBB's study finds that the problem wors- ened in 2020. Losses reported to the FBI's In- ternet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) about em- ployment scams were up 27% between 2018 and 2020. BBB Institute's 2020 report on job scams found that this fraud most victimized people ages 25-34, with women filing 67% of complaints about this fraud. The median fi- nancial loss reported by these victims was $1,000; in addition, they often re- ported loss of their time, as 32% were never paid for the work they did for an "employer" that turned out to be fraudulent. Identity theft is a com- mon outcome of job scams, as scammers often steal job seekers' personal information to open bank accounts to further their fraud. BBB found 34% of victims provided their driver's li- cense number and 25% provided their Social Se- curity or Social Insurance number. Fake checks also fre- quently accompany job scams, and they con- tinue to grow. This new BBB study finds that 36% of job scam complaints to BBB involved a fake check, with fake check complaints to the Fed- eral Trade Commission (FTC) increasing by 65% between 2015 and 2020. In the two years since BBB issued an investiga- tive study on fake check fraud, losses absorbed by banks themselves due to fake checks went up 40% to reach $1.3 bil- lion. Common fraudulent job offers involving fake checks include mystery shopping or secret shop- per jobs, car wrap jobs, nanny or caregiver jobs, and small business jobs such as photography or painting houses. Employment scam vic- tims frequently become unwitting accomplices in other fraud, used as money mules, to mail fake checks, or to participate in reshipping scams, which represent 65% of the scam job offers reported to BBB Scam Tracker. Scammers "hire" victims from job boards, Face- book, or Craigslist, offer- ing to pay them as much as $2,500 to receive and then send on packages. These fraudsters often use stolen credit card numbers to order laptops, cellphones and high-end goods and have them sent to reshipping vic- tims, instructing them to repackage the goods and providing shopping labels to send the packages to a new address, often in Russia. The accomplices who were hired for this fraudulent type of work are never paid, and their identities may be used to open bank accounts. The FTC has acted against job scammers, including a fake job placement company the agency sued in 2019. As- sociated scams such as reshipping schemes and money mule schemes have been a focus for state and federal law en- forcement; in December 2020, the Department of Justice announced the re- sults of a worldwide effort to deal with money mules, resulting in action taken against 2,300 people. Job scams increased during pandemic, BBB study finds ShelbyInfo.com ShelbyInfo.com ALL ALL CLASSIFIEDS CLASSIFIEDS ONLINE & ONLINE & IN PRINT IN PRINT Classifi ed Classifi ed Deadline is Deadline is 3:00pm Tuesday 3:00pm Tuesday