Open your e-mail account and check the spam/junk folder --and more likely than not, you will find at least one message claiming that you've won some sort of sweepstakes or lottery. These e-mails come from strangers who harvest e-mails from all...
June 2012 Archives
When it first debuted a little over a year ago, it remained to be seen whether the government's Consumer Financial Protection Bureau would be a positive force in the lives of consumers or if it would be just another bureaucracy...
The Anti-Phishing Working Group's (APWG) Phishing Activity Trends Report, published April 2012, states that 39 percent of the world's computers are infected with some form of malware. This is a staggering percentage, and the problem does not appear to be...
Nothing is off-limits for scammers and identity thieves when it comes to finding new targets to victimize. The IRS has reported that there is a new identity theft scam going around that targets members of the active military, military retirees...
The security breach at LinkedIn has been big news recently. It's understandable, since the breach exposed the passwords of potentially millions of professionals to hackers; if their accounts were accessed, this could lead to a significant amount of personal information...
The kids are out of school and the first day of summer is just around the corner. Across the nation, families are planning their summer vacations and deciding exactly how they want to get away from it all. Unfortunately, scammers...
Most of the time, when I talk about data breaches I'm telling you about some large company that's had customer information stolen or a hospital that has had patient records and insurance claim numbers compromised. I've said before that anyone...
It seems like there's always somebody who wants to get ahold of your money. If you live in California or a few other states and were affected by mortgage fraud, it may be the state itself that's after your cash. ...
A memoir exposing the steep price consumers pay when facing mortgage servicing errors, inaccurate credit reporting, illegal debt collection practices, identity theft and weak consumer protection laws. THE BOOK » DENISE'S STORY »
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