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Released: January 02, 2012
Bamboozled: scams, banking problems, questionable deals
Source: Karin Price Mueller, The Star-Ledger
Economic uncertainty was the source of many consumer complaints in 2011.
Unscrupulous contractors, bureaucratic banks and plain old scammers took big chunks out of the wallets of consumers who either needed help or were looking for a fair deal. Other consumers ended up doing business with companies that were either careless or simply made hard-to-fix mistakes.
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