An automated call that claims to want your opinion actually might be after your money. Phone surveys are exempt from…
How to Protect Your Financial Accounts High-tech thieves are trying to crack your nest egg. An incredible 88% of brokerages and…
It sounds like a tempting offer—hide your credit problems by obtaining a credit-privacy number (CPN) to replace your Social Security number…
Just because Bernard Madoff is behind bars doesn’t mean that you are safe from thousands of other financial villains who…
What to do right now... Massive data breaches at giant companies have become so commonplace that consumers now tend to…
Even the “safest” corners of the Internet are no longer safe. Latest scam that could harm you: Cybercriminals have been…
Phone scammers who falsely promise to make people’s computers more secure have added some new tricks. In the basic scam,…
Few people seem to fully understand "the cloud," yet hundreds of millions of people use it to store their digital…
Utility scams are spreading, and they are especially common when severe weather strikes—a time when people might be most vulnerable.…
Next time you shop for a whole chicken or boneless chicken breasts in a supermarket meat section, give the labels…
If you ever use Google to search for a nearby business, scammers may be targeting you. That’s because it’s easy…
How to protect yourself from hotel Wi-Fi, smartphone hackers and more Identity thieves have developed new ways to gain access…
Not long ago, a neighbor of mine was persuaded by a telemarketer to buy $50 worth of vitamins over the…
There’s a rapidly growing danger that could affect your money if it is managed by a broker or financial adviser.…
Some well-meaning people purchase prepaid-funeral contracts so that when they die, their heirs won't have to pay their funeral expenses.…
