Tag "Scam alert"
ATM Chip-and-Pin Card Hack
The Chip-and-PIN cards are just as easy to clone as magnetic stripe cards. It took researchers just a simple chip and pin hack to withdraw up to $50,000 in cash from an ATM in America in under 15 minutes. RELATED: Largest
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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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Pop-up Ad Scam
Tech support scams can be difficult to detect, but one way to detect those scams is to know those pop up ads on your computer with messages like ‘SECURITY ALERT’ or ‘Urgent Notice: your data may be at risk’ – are signs
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Fake Job Ads on Government Website JobActive End In Laundering Money
Fake jobs are being offered by criminals on the Australian website JobActive, tricking users into handing over their personal bank account details. JobActive is a job search portal run by the Department of Employment, and has about 275,000 registered users.
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Scam Artists Get Victims to Pay With iTunes Gift Cards
A gift card is like cash — a quick, convenient and untraceable way for con artists to get money. And even if the victim realizes they’ve been scammed, there’s typically no way to reverse the transaction. Right now, the popular
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Veterans Charity Money Rescued From Scam Artist
Members of your free press pulled off a significant accomplishment: forcing presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump to finally part with the millions of dollars he had promised to various veterans’ charities. What we’ve learned over the past few days makes clear
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Polygamous Leaders Busted in Food Stamp Fraud
Top twelve leaders running a sect of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints were indicted and arrested Tuesday amid charges of food stamp fraud. The 11 arrested men include Lyle Jeffs, brother of the high-profile leader Warren
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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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Assembly Passes measures aimed at FoodShare, Unemployment fraud
Republican lawmakers in the Assembly on Tuesday passed a slate of bills that seek to crack down on food stamp and unemployment fraud. The proposals aim to prevent FoodShare recipients from selling or sharing the program’s debit cards used to
Read MoreFTC Are NOT Calling You About the OPM Breach
If you’re an OPM data breach victim, you probably know to look out for identity theft. But what about imposter scams? In the latest twist, imposters are pretending to be the FTC offering money to OPM data breach victims. Here’s
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