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How to Protect Yourself from Online Scams

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Check your credit report quarterly. We advise checking your credit report as part of your financial well-being, but it’s also a great way to make sure someone isn’t using your bank or credit cards without your knowledge. Senate Special Committee on Aging states that seniors lose about $3 billion each year to online scams.

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16 Rich Habits

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Stay away from accumulating credit card debt. Very often the boards and committees of nonprofits are made up of wealthy, successful people. Ninety-four percent of the wealthy buy instead of leasing. These folks keep their cars until the wheels fall off, taking great care along the way so that they save money in the long run.

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Love CSI? How About a Career in Computer Forensics?

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Although credit-card numbers reportedly were protected, an investigation is under way amid new worries that such a large company could be at risk. Consider events in just the past year: • Hackers broke into a Zappos' server, giving them access to the records of 24 million customers of the online shoe and clothing retailer.

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Customer service for Web users?

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Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John D. If this were to become law, it would become illegal to collect identifying information including names, email addresses, and credit card numbers without an individual’s consent. Surely the entrepreneurial technology gurus have an idea how to protect customer privacy.

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Small Business World News Round-up – 2009/12/15

The Small Business Blog

RBI draws flank from panel : The carte blanche given to private and foreign banks by the Reserve Bank of India to charge interest rates on credit cards at their whims and fancy has come in for severe criticism by the parliamentary standing committee on finance.

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