Fraud Protection and Financial Safety

Your pet's name is a fraudster's best friend. You may think you're giving up precious little when you tell your Facebook friends that you're dressing your pooch, Puddles, in your favorite color, red, Read More

Identity theft has grown exponentially over the past few years, spurred by the financial rewards, the relative ease of committing the crime, and the low probability of being caught. Read More

The TV screen showed a full moon, large, and orange from wildfire smoke, against a black sky. The camera panned down with no sound, obviously one of those artsy shots that sometimes end the news shows, and stopped on a rubble pile, shades of grey... Read More

The thought of financial abuse is not always top of mind when we think of our elderly loved ones, and yet it is a real problem with a potentially... Read More

Consumer complaints are received every day from victims who clicked an email link or paid upfront for a product or service only to be conned out of... Read More

Anyone who finds it will have an opportunity to empty your bank account, steal your identity or both. Read More

Using your smart phone to check your bank account balance or deposit a check is convenient. But is it safe? Read More

Kimberly Lankford, Contributing Editor, Kiplinger's Personal Finance My credit-card company called me and said that somebody tried to charge a penny... Read More

Cameron Huddleston, Contributing Editor, Kiplinger.com Recently I've received a few suspicious e-mails that likely would've infected my computer... Read More

By Laura Cohn, Associate Editor You can deep-six most of your documents and go digital with the rest. Worried about pitching documents that... Read More