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Wendy’s: Fast Food Chain Credit Card Breach
Wendy’s old-fashioned hamburgers and chocolate frosty’s are well-known, but what isn’t well known are the chances that your credit card information was compromised. Wendy’s, the fast food chain, has recently announced that it’s investigating a possible breach within its system. RELATED: Survey Reveals 11%
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Biggest Scam in Pay TV Might Come to an End
Comcast and Time Warner Cable, big name cable industry lobbyists are furious right now, which obviously means Washington is cooking something up that stands to benefit consumers rather than help big cable line cable companies’ pockets. Last time lobbyists were this angry,
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Super Bowl Ticket Scams
Super Bowl 50 is set to kick off this Sunday, February 7th, and as you consider purchasing tickets to the hottest sporting events of the year, you might want to double check where those amazing offers are coming from. Scammers have been known to
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Survey Reveals 11% of Adults Lost Money to a Phone Scam in 2015
Calling victims on the phone to trap them into a scam seems so old school, however in today’s day of technology any scheme is possible. Apparently scammers hold to the adage “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” Because telephone scams, even in
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Protect Yourself From Identity Theft & Related Tax Fraud
Identity theft tops the list of taxpayer concerns for 2016. According to a 2015 Identity Fraud Study, released by Javelin Strategy & Research, show identity thieves stole $16 billion from 12.7 million U.S. consumers in 2014, a new victim every two seconds. Those
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How to Spot Short-Term Loan Con
In a recent article on ABCNews.com, one follower reached out to their team of scam experts to find out if they were being conned on a short-term loan. Find out if you can relate to this similar situation and how you can
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Why 2015 Was Not a Good Year to Fight Against Online Ad Fraud
A loss of $6.3 billion for the advertising industry was on pace to last year by showing digital ads to robots, according to a December 2014 study by White Ops, a fraud detection firm. The study applied some concrete numbers to illustrate a problem that most people in the
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Fraud Prevention In 8 Minutes…Or Less
Online ordering from websites that work in third-parties dealing with food, liquor and dry cleaning might have your money, and your identity, taken the minute you enter personal information. Colin Sims, COO of Delivery.com, recently told MPD CEO Karen Webster, the primary
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How to Avoid WhatsApp Viruses, Scams and Hoaxes
WhatsApp scams are going around and this last one could be the most dangerous yet to unwitting users. Prevent these scam artists from threatening you to download a virus to your phone by detecting some of the WhatsApp scams that you need to delete
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Is Your Landlord a Fraud?
Landlords have access to our most sensitive financial and personal information — never mind our living space — and yet we usually don’t know much about them. While most landlords are reputable and trustworthy, there are some whose behaviors veer
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