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What to Do When Your Advisor Messes Up 03/05/2018 07:00pm • Planning for your financial future requires attention to detail, which is why you should choose an investment or financial advisor carefully, but even the best advisors can make mistakes, with a truly unscrupulous advisor potentially costing you your retirement. Considering the overwhelming number a How to Avoid Financial Scams 01/29/2018 07:00pm • If you think you're impervious to financial scams, think again. Fraudsters are an ever-present threat, stealing your personal information and exploiting your weaknesses to get access to your money and account information. In 2017, cybercrime impacted the lives of more than 143 million Americans, co How to Protect Yourself From Identity Theft 01/25/2018 07:00pm • For cyber thieves, your personally identifiable information is as good as gold. Your name, email address, phone number, Social Security number, passwords and other information can allow criminals to wreak havoc on your financial accounts, medical records, credit health and even your job prospects. Maryland's AG, comptroller highlight threat of elder financial fraud 01/09/2018 11:38am • WASHINGTON ��� Millions of people are ripped off by identity thieves scam artists and straight out crooks. Many of them are trusting seniors like your parents. And for Maryland Comptroller Peter Franchot, it's personal. ���I���m very sensitive on this issue of abuse of seniors,��� Franchot sai IRS receives iTunes gift cards in taxpayer scam 12/13/2017 04:34am • WASHINGTON ��� Crooks who are posing as the IRS are��so convincing that��victims presumably��being pumped for personal information have been��sending the IRS iTunes gift cards. "We're looking into the matter right now," IRS spokeswoman��Cecilia Barreda said.��"I don't have specifics about their e Hackable Holidays: Bluetooth scam hits drivers at area gas stations 11/30/2017 04:12am • This is the fourth part of WTOP���s consumer series Hackable Holidays, which explores privacy concerns associated with smart devices and how consumers can better protect themselves this holiday season. WASHINGTON ��� Hackers are striking gas stations around the D.C. region in a new scam whe Hackable Holidays: Turn off the 'Big Three' in crowds to prevent cellphone hacking 11/29/2017 04:05am • This is the third part of WTOP���s consumer series Hackable Holidays, which explores privacy concerns associated with smart devices and how consumers can better protect themselves this holiday season. WASHINGTON ��� When people break out their phones in places such as the mall, or even a holiday Arlington police: Scammer sought ransom in fake kidnapping 11/27/2017 06:08pm • WASHINGTON ��� The Arlington County police say they broke up a kidnapping scam on Sunday, in which a woman was falsely told that her daughter had been abducted. The police said a woman called them at about noon Sunday and told them she had received a call from a man who said he had kidnapped her 11 Strategies for Keeping Your Health Data Secure 11/26/2017 07:00pm • How safe is your health data? How confident are you that your health data is secure? Protecting such personal information is crucial in light of several high-profile data breaches, such as the one in which as many as 145 million U.S. residents had their information hacked from Equifax Inc., which pr How to Avoid Fake Shopping Apps This Holiday Season 11/21/2017 07:00pm • With Black Friday and Cyber Monday around the corner, consumers and retailers are gearing up for a busy shopping season. Meanwhile, experts caution that scammers may have a new trick up their sleeves: fake shopping apps. Mobile shopping may soon surpass shopping on a desktop. According to the "Ho Maryland State Police warn of phone scam using one of their numbers 10/30/2017 11:42pm • WASHINGTON ��� A cloned state police number is reportedly being used to offer credit card services, but Maryland State Police said they are not connected to the phone call. A Baltimore County woman reported to state police Monday afternoon that she had received a call with the caller ID showing " Why you need both a resume and a strong LinkedIn profile 10/23/2017 08:00pm • If LinkedIn had its way, there would be no such thing as a resume anymore. We may be heading in that direction, but we certainly aren't there yet! The reality is that you need both a well-constructed resume and an optimized LinkedIn profile for an effective current job search. They should share a How Banks Are Working to Protect You From Fraud 10/19/2017 08:00pm • You might be surprised by the level of sophistication and organization of today's bank thieves. Rather than holding up a branch, today's robbers use resources purchased on the dark web, the internet's underbelly, to hack accounts and drain them with fraudulent charges. "I'm not sure the industry is 3 Things to Fix on Your Credit Report 09/28/2017 08:00pm • If you've ever received a phone call from a debt collector looking for someone else who owes money, thinking that person might be you, you may want to check your credit report and start looking for errors. There might be a number of innocuous reasons why a debt collector would call you for a debt th Loudoun Co. sheriffs warn of phone scam that uses their name 09/22/2017 05:04pm • WASHINGTON ��� The Loudoun County Sheriff���s Office is spreading the word about a phone scam that���s using their name to try to pry money from people. The sheriff���s office said in a statement that someone in the county got a call from someone claiming to be a Lt. Vance Barry, saying that ther