Tag "identity theft"
Holiday Shopping Online Identity Theft
New LifeLock Survey Shows That a Third of Americans Are Planning to Do All or Most of Their Holiday Shopping Online, but Are Still Concerned about Identity Theft 80 percent of Americans plan to do at least some holiday shopping
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Cyber Scams to Avoid
Internet scams used to be more obvious, like you could spot the bad guy a mile away and you were probably more amused than afraid. Remember the Nigerian prince who insisted you were due an inheritance, if you’d send in your
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Protect Your Identity During the Holidays
The holidays are approaching and the malls are getting packed with shoppers preparing for their upcoming festivities, which is why it’s more important now than ever to protect your money and your identity. Thieves are prowling for your digits as
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Fight Back Against Identity Theft
Victims of identity theft rise each year, and right now more than 17 million Americans are effected. This past summer, the Democratic National Committee’s computer network was hacked, and just last month Yahoo disclosed that hackers stole information from at least
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Protect Yourself Or Resolve Identity Theft
Identity theft impacts more than 17 million consumers every year, and consumers over 50 can be particularly vulnerable. This year is on track to exceed the 780 data breaches of 2015, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center. But there
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Yahoo Promotion Scam
Most people ignore their spam folders, but if you were one who received a message congratulating you on winning something from “Yahoo, Inc,” with the subject line simply reading “Yahoo Promotion”, then you might have been the latest victim of an online Yahoo Promotion
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Safeguard Against Money Fraud
Providing your personal information seems to be an everyday occurrence – it’s something we do with every paperless transaction or online order. But do we really know what happens to all that information once we key in the details? Well, the information
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New Identity Theft Scam Targets Hacked Cell Phone Accounts
New Scam WARNING targets cell phone accounts. Scammers are taking total control of people’s cell phone numbers without the phone ever leaving their hands. RELATED: 4 Common Phone Scams Accounts can be hijacked and the federal government says it’s a growing
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5 Ways to Protect Your Finances From Money Transfer Frauds
The number of migrant employees continues to grow as well as globalization and the online worlds which have all facilitated the money transfer industry to turn out to be a US $250 billion a year industry. The number of the money
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Fake Friends, Fake News, Phony Weight-Loss Promises
A new scam alert is coming your way via email. The FTC reports this scam will look like the email is coming from a friend, urging you to try new weight-loss pills. There’s a link to an article about a
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