Credit cards and banking specialist Jenn Underwood brings over 16 years of personal finance experience to the table. After a decade of teaching courses in banking, debt reduction, budgeting and credit ...

Fraud alerts and credit freezes help protect you from identity theft, either by alerting creditors to take extra steps to verify your identity or by hiding your credit report from potential creditors.

Ever find your palms sweating as you enter your payment info into a merchant site you’ve never used before? It’s a natural response; few financial details are more important than your payment methods ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Selman Gedik/Getty Images If deleting and reporting scam texts and phone calls has become part of your daily routine, there's ...

Yep -- got the email a couple of days ago, and it seems my personal info was caught up in a massive bank data breach. Hackers now have access to my full name, address, birthdate, email, phone number - ...

Some credit card scams target employees in an attempt to get them to divulge sensitive information. — Getty Images/StarZImages Credit card processing scams come in all forms. They can be a phone call ...

Every year, millions of Americans become victims of credit fraud. Most victims don’t know their identity has likely already been compromised. Identity fraud cost Americans more than $42.9 billion in ...

It's easy to think of credit card fraud and picture someone skimming your card at a gas pump. But that's not usually how it happens. The bigger threat is new account fraud. Someone opens a credit card ...

An incorrect address on your credit report is one at which you've never lived and it can be a signal of identity theft. Here's what to do if you spot one.

Credit card fraud involves unauthorized use of your credit account, whether through phishing, skimming or theft. If you suspect fraudulent activity, immediately contact your credit card issuer, change ...

"That was a pretty interesting one," Art Wicks, director of loss prevention at Tech Data, succinctly described the scam that eventually included more than a half-dozen companies over several years.