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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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Customer service for Web users?

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Isn’t that all part of customer service; to protect our privacy wherever we shop? 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.

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

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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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