When Caller ID Doesn’t Cut It: Should You Answer a Private Call?
When your phone rings, what’s your initial response: to answer it or to check first and see who’s calling? For many of us — probably most of us — it’s…
When your phone rings, what’s your initial response: to answer it or to check first and see who’s calling? For many of us — probably most of us — it’s…
Imagine answering your door one day to find a crowd of strangers with balloons and TV cameras handing you a check for a million dollars. As fantasies go, they don’t…
Not so very long ago, there were a lot of headlines about a type of data theft called “skimming.” Criminals added their own illicit data-capture devices to legitimate ATM or…
Your Social Security number was never originally intended to serve as a piece of general-purpose identification — in fact, it was explicitly meant not to fill that niche — but,…
There are always going to be days when it feels like everyone and everything is against you. That feeling can be especially amplified online, where it seems like any random…
There are a lot of ways identity theft can mess up your life, none of them good. One of the most alarming is that it can — at least temporarily…