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Scammers use rental listings to get you to pay in advance for a place to live or vacation.

Offers of free money from government grants are scams. Here’s how to avoid a government grant scam, and how to report it.

Many of us have grown used to the idea that companies constantly collect information about us as we go about our daily lives. It may be information we give up willingly, like a credit card number for a purchase. But it also may be information that we don’t know we’re surrendering, and may not want to share. Companies are able to collect enormous amounts of personal data about virtually every conceivable aspect of our lives, often in ways that we might not expect or understand.

Before you trade in, sell, give away, or recycle your phone, remove your personal information.

The more energy efficient an appliance is, the less it costs to run, and the lower your utility bills might be.

The FTC has been getting reports of people getting letters in the mail from a law firm. They are, they say, looking for the heir of a multi-million-dollar inheritance. And they think it might be you. (Spoiler alert: it’s not.)