Just before the holidays, Jill Eberhardt says scammers hit her PayPal account with a $1,010 unauthorized transaction. Although her bank, Chase, immediately identified the unusual “purchase” from Maple ...

A Long Island travel agent has been arrested and charged with scamming would-be cruise ship passengers out of $35,000. That shocked family didn’t find out until they reached the pier that their Royal ...

Kesha Green* made what is arguably the most dire mistake a passenger can make on a cruise ship. Just hours after boarding Carnival Conquest in Miami, she found herself unexpectedly brawling with two ...

Old-school scammers are trying to get back in the (con) game and, surprisingly, they’re doing it via snail mail. Here’s what you need to know about the inheritance scam, delivered straight to your ...

Alton Locklear returned home from his latest Royal Caribbean cruise with a $16,000 diamond necklace he purchased on the ship. But all was not as it seemed. He says salespeople inside the Effy jewelry ...

Expensive car rental mistakes are easily avoidable with just a little research and preparation. Yet week after week, the Consumer Rescue case files show that many car rental customers do neither. By ...

Could an ombudsman columnist who routinely writes about tourist scams become the target of one herself? The answer is, of course, “Yes.” No traveler is immune to the possibility of a brush with a bad ...

Ace Rent a Car at the Tampa airport blindsided Carla Lemker with a $1,400 repair bill after her last rental. Certain she hadn’t caused any damage to the vehicle, Lemker asked Ace for proof — and then ...

Norwegian Cruise Line recently denied boarding to a bewildered passenger in Tokyo — she says, solely because of her nationality. But the next day, NCL reversed course and told the woman she was ...

Frightening mid-air engine troubles caused a Swiss Air flight headed to Miami to return to Zurich last June. Michael and Marsha Kistler were on that flight — seated in premium economy. Just before the ...

Publishers Clearing House scams remain a menace to senior citizens, even after the company’s bankruptcy earlier this year. I know because a friendly, self-proclaimed “man of God” called me last week, ...

Cruise ship passengers frequently contact Consumer Rescue after falling victim to scams during their travels. Unfortunately, by then it’s usually too late to do anything – except to tell their stories ...