Concerns over shortages and long wait times for products could ramp up the holiday shopping season early.
The Better Business Bureau says scammers are ready to take advantage, particularly online. A recent study found 35-percent of scams reported so far this year were online purchase scams.
The B-B-B reports 75-percent of the people who report online shopping scams lose money and the largest demographic targeted by online scams are people ages 18-years-old to 24-years-old.


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