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Top 5 personal finance scams in India and how to stay safe from them
Don’t make any payments just because a stranger told you to. Verify the situation and the person’s …
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A personal finance TikToker claims unlimited PTO is the 'biggest scam.' Career experts say she has a point.
Unlimited vacation time has been a perk companies have offered to attract talent for a few years, b…
Lindsay Dodgson
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Navi Mumbai job aspirants robbed of Rs 1.31 crore on pretext of Indian Railways job, 6 accused booked
In Navi Mumbai, six individuals allegedly scammed 20 job seekers of Rs 1.31 crore by promising cler…
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10 financial scams that shook India: A dive into deception
From Ponzi schemes to bank frauds, the Indian government and investors have fallen victim to many f…
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Here's why Gen Z loses more money to online scams than boomers
Gen Z reported losing the most money over average to online scams last year. Boomers lost less on a…
Kenneth Niemeyer
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An ex-Mastercard executive was nearly scammed of $100,000. Here's how she spotted it.
Account takeover fraud surged 354% in 2023, costing $13 billion. Here's how a former Mastercard exe…
Kenneth Niemeyer
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TikTok is rife with scams promising to fix your credit score or wipe your debt, finance expert warns here are 3
Accredited financial councelor and Markia Brown spoke to Insider about some of the financial red fl…
Lindsay Dodgson
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Fresno officials should have noticed a phishing scam that cost taxpayers more than $600,000, jury says
Fresno lost $600,000 to a phishing scam in 2020. A grand jury now says city officials should have d…
Kenneth Niemeyer
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5 crypto scams to know before you start trading coins
Scammers use various techniques to rob crypto investors. Here are five scams to know and how to avo…
Carter Kilmann
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You have to read this story about a woman who was scammed out of $50,000
A writer was a victim of a phone scam, and her personal essay about it is tearing apart the interne…
Katie Notopoulos
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After the 'Tinder Swindler', the FBI is now warning about the rise in romance scams, while a survey showed 1 in 3 Americans are more likely to date someone who talks about crypto
Romance scams increasingly involve crypto, as 33% of Americans say they're more likely to date some…
Adam Morgan McCarthy
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Callers beware! Over 31,000 fake customer care numbers are out there to scam you
When we face any difficulty regarding a product or service, we tend to automatically reach out to t…
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DeFi: The peer-to-peer financial system based primarily on Ethereum
DeFi or decentralized finance is based on blockchain technology and creates financial systems with …
Melanie Lockert
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Fiat money: Currencies that derive their value largely through trust in the governments that issue them
Fiat money is currency backed by trust in the government that issued it and not tied to a physical …
Leslie Quander Wooldridge
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How to protect yourself from data breaches and what to do if your personal data is compromised online
Most data breaches involve hacked email accounts or stolen bank information, and can be protected a…
William Antonelli
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5 strategies to start day trading crypto
Learn what crypto day trading is and how to participate in three steps: Select a platform, evaluate…
Ryan Austin
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Yield farming: An investing strategy involving staking or lending crypto assets to generate returns
Yield farming involves lending cryptocurrency in exchange for interest payments and other rewards -…
Coryanne Hicks
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Is Coinbase safe? How to use the popular crypto-trading platform safely and securely
Is the crypto-trading platform Coinbase safe? There's some degree of risk, but you can take these s…