Category: Heads Up
Heads Up: Back from the breach (again)
I’m tired of writing first-person accounts of identity theft and scams.
Heads Up: National Elder Fraud Hotline fraud
If someone you don’t know reaches out and starts asking for compromising information, hang up. Even if she says she’s your mother.
Heads Up: Robocalls
What to do about illegal robocalls
Heads Up: Avoid phishing lures
“When you get an email, be suspicious of links, be suspicious of photos.”
Heads Up: Disconnected utilities
Scammers are impersonating utilities companies. Learn what you should do.
Heads Up: Don’t believe your own ears
Using AI, fraudsters are making impostor scams more believable.
Heads Up: Dealing with data breaches
There’s little you can do to prevent your information from being leaked through data breaches, but you can limit the fallout.
Heads Up: Tax-time scams
Scamsters are opportunists. They insinuate their schemes into whatever seems to be getting attention at the moment.
Heads Up: Problematic paper payments
To say, “The check is in the mail,” is a joke. What isn’t funny is check fraud.
Heads Up: COLA is Automatic
Social Security recipients get annual adjustments to their benefits based on government measures of inflation.