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Tax Season Unleashes Cyberscams and Our Identity
As tax season approaches us, so do cybercriminals. The time when we stress most about money and financial situations and now we have to take into consideration potential scammers attacking us, small businesses in particular. Cybercrooks often use current events
Read MoreIRS Offers Tax Refund Incentive
Less than one month before our taxes are due and the IRS is offering an incentive for taxpayers, get your refund before it’s scammed away from you. The Crime Tracker 3 trend, reported by Las Vegas News 3, learned refund
Read MoreFuneral Scam Sends Fake Notices to Family and Friends
Scheming on fake funeral emails is hitting a new low for scammers. According to the Federal Trade Commission, scam artists are sending fake funeral notifications and offering their condolences, even setting up a time and date reading in the subject
Read MoreCell Phone Scam Might ‘One-Ring’ You Next
Out-of-state numbers are being reported as the new ‘One Ring’ scam, calling your cell phone by the scammers programmed computer, which blasts out thousands of calls to random cellphone numbers, rings once, then disconnects, according to Sharane Gott with the Better
Read MoreMilitary Families Main Target for Identity Theft
Members of a military family might not be under attack overseas, but their identities and bank accounts are taking cover here on their homeland. A 2013 Federal Trade Commission study found that military consumers reported identity theft at twice the rate of
Read MoreCitigroup Employee Questioned by Mexican Police Over Alleged Fraud
Citigroup Inc. employee was questioned by Mexican police as a suspect in the alleged theft of $400 million taken from their bank, according to WSJ.Whichever employee stole the money appears to be jnior at the company and worked for the bank’s Mexico
Read MoreNew York City Continues to Arrest Police Officers and Firefighters in Disability Fraud
New York City – Several more police officers and firefighters are being charged in an alleged fraud scheme, going back 26 years on these victims, which includes up to 1,000 fraudulent claims on Social Security Disability Insurance. The investigation continues
Read MoreInvestment Banker Guilty of Inside Trading
A former New York City investment banker was accused of insider trading Friday for allegedly using brokerage accounts of the mother of his child and his father to reap hundreds of thousand of dollars in illegal profits, federal authorities said.
Read MoreIdentity Fraud Strikes a New Victim Every Two Seconds
The number of identity fraud victims jumped to 13.1 million in 2013, a new report from Javelin Strategy & Research finds. That’s an increase of 500,000 from 2012 and the second highest number of victims since Javelin began conducting its
Read MoreApple Investors Losing Interest in Billion Dollar Company
In the two days leading up to Apple’s earnings report Monday, selling in Apple spiked among investors with accounts on SigFig, a financial advisory start-up that tracks over $100 billion in assets among its users. The dollar amount of Apple shares sold
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