It turns out that scammers can use your family’s financial data to get at yours — with you being none the wiser. Kiplinger sat down with Mark Baran, managing director of the National Tax ...

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Scammers are impersonating the IRS to trick taxpayers into sharing personal information, claiming they are eligible for a $1,400 stimulus check, according to the Better Business Bureau. These ...

TRYING TO GET A JUMP ON TAX SEASON. FOLKS, I’VE TOLD YOU BEFORE, SCAMMERS KEEP AN EYE ON THE CALENDAR AND THEY KNOW THAT BETWEEN NOW AND THE MIDDLE OF APRIL, MOST OF US WILL HAVE TAXES ON THE BRAIN.

check to see if they’re registered with the FCA see if they’re on the FCA warning list tell someone - find an advisor. An investment scam is when someone offers you a fake - but often convincing - ...

Now that the current tax filing season is open, scammers hope that distracted taxpayers ... steal personal information like Social Security numbers, bank details, or payment credentials.

Always verify the authenticity of such messages by contacting the IRS directly through their official website or phone numbers. Another scam to watch out for this tax season involves fraudulent ...

A woman lost tens of thousands of dollars when scammers allegedly stole her financial information online and targeted her home in a burglary. Anna Houlahan reports on crime and social issues ...

Microsoft is rolling out a new tool dubbed “scareware blocker,” which uses machine learning and computer vision to identify a very pervasive type of online scam. “Scareware” has blighted ...

Microsoft has started testing a new "scareware blocker" feature for the Edge web browser on Windows PCs, which uses machine learning (ML) to detect tech support scams. Scareware scams (also known ...

Not wanting to be rude, you respond by telling the sender they’ve got the wrong number ... falling for the scam. Some scammers set up fake e-commerce stores and buy ads for the website on social media ...