Gabriela Walsh is a Certified Educator in Personal Finance® and a personal finance editor at Red Ventures. Her previous work experience includes various editorial positions at FinanceBuzz. She ...

Your 401(k) might be one of the most valuable things you've got. And scammers are well aware of this. So, while you're focused on building a nest egg, they're out there coming up with new ways to take ...

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Eva Velasquez is president and CEO of the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC), a nonprofit that supports victims of identity theft. Here, she talks to Kiplinger about key identity theft problems to ...

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Credit card fraud and identity theft are two terms you have probably heard before. And if you've been unlucky, you may have ...

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