Police warns: ‘Change your WhatsApp settings so scammers can’t add you to groups’ – Scammed ?!

Police warns: ‘Change your WhatsApp settings so scammers can’t add you to groups’ – Scammed ?!

A message shared by several police units on Facebook and Twitter is now also circulating as a chain message on WhatsApp. You should change your WhatsApp settings for group conversations, otherwise you run the risk of scammers approaching you with spam, loans and other scams. Is that actually correct, and are you indeed at risk? … Read more

“Lower doses of antidepressants should also be reimbursed” – Radar

“Lower doses of antidepressants should also be reimbursed” – Radar

Many patients who are no longer depressed continue to take antidepressants. To get rid of it, some of the patients need pills in lower doses, but they are not reimbursed by most health insurance companies. The Dutch Psychiatric Association (NVvP) tells Zembla that the insurers are not honoring their agreements about this. So-called tapering medication, … Read more

German residents have accumulated almost 200 billion euros for the pandemic

German residents have accumulated almost 200 billion euros for the pandemic

Germans spend less money – – Consumers spend less money due to restrictions during a pandemic, and banks are wary of who to borrow money from in troubled financial times. German residents amid the coronavirus pandemic amassed € 182 billion between January 2020 and January 2021. Such data were provided by the Federal Bank of … Read more

Birgitta has a rare form of cancer: “I have lived in fear for weeks” – Radar

Birgitta has a rare form of cancer: “I have lived in fear for weeks” – Radar

One third of people with a rare form of cancer first receive one or more incorrect diagnoses. In the the Week of Rare Cancers attention is drawn to the 130,000 people who have to deal with rare cancers, and therefore also with these types of problems. Every day, patients share their experience on the Rare … Read more

5G. Consumer association accuses Free of unfair commercial practices

5G.  Consumer association accuses Free of unfair commercial practices

Consumers association Rural Families announced this Thursday, January 21, 2021 to have filed a legal summons against the operator telephone Free, reproaching him unfair trade practices because according to her to hope a performance gain than all frequencies 5G are not able to offer at present . The communication published by Free on December 15, … Read more

Care and Medication – Radar

Care and Medication – Radar

As long as humanity has existed, we have been trying in all kinds of ways to heal ourselves from ailments, diseases and injuries. Today we have access to professional doctors, extensively tested medicines and widely equipped hospitals. – Other issues discussed in this topic include vaccinations, euthanasia, the use and nonsense of alternative medication, medical … Read more

Irache recovers more than 4.5 million euros for those affected by the mortgage floor clause

Irache recovers more than 4.5 million euros for those affected by the mortgage floor clause

“Despite the initial reluctance of the banks to return the money, little by little the pressure from consumer associations and the courts have been protecting the rights of the affected clients,” said Irache, who recalled that “it was first recognized that in the vast majority of cases the inclusion of this clause had been done … Read more

Here is Agriculture Week! – Our Land

Here is Agriculture Week!  – Our Land

No competition at the Porte de Versailles exhibition center in 2021. The finals will take place in Angoulême, Châlons-en-Champagne, Montpellier and Tours. (archive photo) – Posted on: November 27, 2020 The International Agricultural Show, a major annual European agricultural event, is reinventing itself and make an appointment with all stakeholders in the agricultural world in … Read more

The resistance of certain condoms pinned down by “60 million consumers”

The resistance of certain condoms pinned down by “60 million consumers”

Condoms do they all have the same resistance? Obviously, the answer is no according to “60 million consumers”. In a survey published in November, the association revealed the results of its tests carried out on 18 different models (brand, thickness, material). All are stamped “CE”, the label of the European standard. According to these tests, … Read more

High payment behavior in Corona times / So far, no increased payment defaults by consumers

High payment behavior in Corona times / So far, no increased payment defaults by consumers

Wiesbaden (ots) – SCHUFA Risk and Credit Compass 2020 examines credit behavior and the mood of consumers and entrepreneurs // Economy so far stable // No increase in payment defaults and bankruptcies // Consumer sentiment has improved in the last two months // Vaccine Great economic importance is assigned // Future forecasts of the interviewed … Read more