This past weekend, for the first time in my adult life, I was the victim of identity theft. We were walking into the movie theater about to sit down for a movie, and I got a phone call from a…
Payment apps like Zelle make transferring funds easy. Unfortunately, they also make it easy for scammers to get ahold of your money. In 2021 alone, users lost around $440 million on the peer-to-peer payment system. What’s worse, Zelle warns they’re…
It used to be that when you wanted to find an apartment for rent, buy a used car, or pick up used, secondhand items like furniture or a washer and dryer, you looked in the classified section of the newspaper….
The number of full-time remote workers is growing rapidly, according to data compiled by FlexJobs. About 4.7 million Americans worked remotely on a full-time basis in early 2020, up from 3.9 million in 2015. Millions more Americans work from home…
Years ago, I bought a used microwave on Craigslist for $20. Examining the appliance in the trunk of the seller’s minivan, I saw that it was relatively new, reasonably clean, and still had its rotating interior plate. Score. Then I…
Your budget gets tighter by the month. You need to earn extra income — fast. So you sit down to think up some side hustles you feel like you’d be good at. Wait, what? It’s not legal, it’s not advisable,…
When Louise (not her real name) went to visit her 98-year-old grandmother, she was surprised to find several cheap candles sitting on her table. Her grandmother explained that she’d bought them to help out a charity she gave to regularly,…
A few years ago, a couple of young people came to my door dressed in a uniform I couldn’t identify. They said they were from “the power company” and they were there because they’d been “getting calls from all [my]…
If you’re preparing to buy your first home, watch out. Scammers are lurking everywhere, eager to con you at every stage of the process, from mortgage application to home inspection. And it’s not just homebuyers who are at risk. Real…
Some scams are easy to spot. I like to think if I connected with The Tinder Swindler on a dating app, I’d realize something was up the first time the so-called heir to a diamond fortune hit me up for…
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