General good habits for staying safe online.
A Digital Arrest Extortion Scam uses fake arrest threats to pressure victims into paying. Here's how it works and how to protect yourself.
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FTC logged 406,110 new-account fraud reports against 52,428 on existing cards. Watching your statement will never catch the bigger one. Here is what does.
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Americans lost $470 million to text scams, five times more than in 2020. Here are the five texts the FTC sees most, and the free number to report them to.
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Adults over 60 are five times more likely to lose money to tech support scams. See the full script fake Microsoft callers use and where to stop the call.
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Every scam uses the same four steps, whatever story it tells. Learn the pattern, the payment methods that give it away, and the one pause that breaks it.
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CISA says turning on multifactor authentication cuts account breach risk by about 99 percent. Six settings, each under five minutes, in the order that matters.
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Report a debit card loss within two business days and your liability is capped at $50. Wait past 60 days and it can be unlimited. Here is the order to act in.
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