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Month: May 2024

Cybercrime / Privacy

Counting on free travel this summer season? Criminals want your rewards points

May 24, 2024 Bob Sullivan 0

It’s the official start of summer travel season which means — take a moment to re-evaluate the cybersecurity of your rewards programs or a criminal could wreck your vacation plans. Imagine spending all year meticulously booking hotels and flights and piling up credit card purchases designed to maximize rewards points [Keep reading]

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Fake unpaid toll texts threaten drivers around U.S.; Uber driver shot after grandparent scam call

May 10, 2024 Bob Sullivan 0

Right as summer driving season starts — beware fake unpaid toll text messages.   The messages prey on drivers’ (realistic) fears of getting hit by an onerous late fee after traveling through an unfamiliar toll authority’s territory.  The fraudulent text messages look like this, according to the FBI. “We’ve noticed an [Keep reading]

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BOB SULLIVAN is a veteran journalist and the author of four books, including the 2008 New York Times Best-Seller, Gotcha Capitalism, and the 2010 New York Times Best Seller, Stop Getting Ripped Off! His latest, The Plateau Effect, was published in 2013, and as a paperback, called Getting Unstuck in 2014. He has won the Society of Professional Journalists prestigious Public Service award, a Peabody award, and The Consumer Federation of America Betty Furness award, and been given Consumer Action’s Consumer Excellence Award.

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