Fraud alerts and credit freezes help protect you from identity theft, either by alerting creditors to take extra steps to verify your identity or by hiding your credit report from potential creditors.

Credit cards and banking specialist Jenn Underwood brings over 16 years of personal finance experience to the table. After a decade of teaching courses in banking, debt reduction, budgeting and credit ...

In April, a Forsyth County man was arrested by the Hall County Sheriff’s Office for allegations of illegally using a company ...

Yep -- got the email a couple of days ago, and it seems my personal info was caught up in a massive bank data breach. Hackers now have access to my full name, address, birthdate, email, phone number - ...

The caller pretends to be a bank employee with an offer to increase the credit card limit. On this pretext, the fraudster ...

Beyond rewards: how credit cards protect purchases, prevent fraud and add real value.

Credit cards and debit cards may seem like the same thing — after all they're both rectangular pieces of plastic — but they act quite differently. One card provides you with a revolving loan, while ...

ChatGPT by OpenAI has come under scrutiny for recommending fraudulent websites that mimic defunct brands, specifically ...

The vast majority (96 percent) of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+) adults are worried about the ...

A pair of five-figure charges from Saks and Apple on Cardi's AMEX sent the rapper into detective mode. By Michael Saponara Cardi B doesn’t play when it comes to her money, and she noticed a couple of ...