This article originally appeared on Finder.com and has been republished here with permission. Credit card fraud is becoming more sophisticated, with scammers using devices called “skimmers” that steal and store your information after you swipe or insert your card. Thankfully, you can visually identify skimmers if you know what to look for. Here are a... Read More

Although the number of identity theft cases fell from 16.7 million in 2017 to 14.4 million in 2018, the number of people held financially liable in these cases and the amount of their losses increased, according to the Insurance Information Institute. These identity theft statistics show that identity theft is still a major concern and... Read More

A few months ago, a relative of mine in Sacramento received a call from his granddaughter. She was calling from a jail in Florida after having crashed her car, broken her nose, and getting arrested. She was sobbing, and pleaded with him to not tell her parents or anyone else, and to send money along... Read More

We all have our areas of interest — make that obsession — and when something related to them crops up online, we can be instantly transformed into monster click-machines. The problem here: Many of those clicks can either lead to your victimization or becoming an unwitting co-conspirator in cybercrime. To make matters worse, once your... Read More

I had an encounter with an alternate universe the other day. There I was, writing a story, and my phone screen lit up with an incoming call. “Christine DiGangi iPhone” it said, which was odd, considering that I was not calling anyone at the moment, let alone myself. I’m familiar with spoofing — when scammers fake the... Read More

There’s apparently a new Facebook scam that would probably make you feel like a huge idiot if you fell for it. It’s more embarrassing than anything else, because it involves you attempting to hack someone else’s account, when really, all you do is give scammers access to yours. Instead of breaking into your friend or... Read More