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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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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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DHFL scam, simplified: Here’s all about the Dheeraj Wadhawan case — allegedly India’s biggest banking loan fraud ever

The CBI also explains that the Wadhawans had allegedly created lakhs of fake borrowers by randomly …

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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…

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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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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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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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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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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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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…

Adam Morgan McCarthy   


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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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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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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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'I'd been suicidal for days': Sam Bankman-Fried lieutenant testifies about immense pressure to keep FTX crypto scam going before it all crashed

Nashad Singh, FTX's former head of engineering, testified in SBF's criminal trial about spiraling i…

Jacob Shamsian   


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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…

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Crypto scams are preying on vulnerable people. Many victims are deceived online, including an elderly woman who lost thousands.

An Indiana-based woman was only able to recover a fraction of the money she lost to a man who convi…

Zahra Tayeb