Tag: identity theft

Your Social Security number is an important key for an identity thief. Scammers want it, and they think of all sorts of ways to trick you into giving it away.

January is the perfect month to organize your schedule for the year – and here’s a suggestion.

Considering Equifax’s offer of free credit monitoring after its breach? You need to sign up by January 31, 2018.

Scammers are trying to get personal information from people by pretending to help with applications for disability benefits and claims.

Here at the FTC, we think about scams all day long. What are the scammers’ new angles? How can we keep ahead of them?