Elusive Wealth

Of course scammers will stop at nothing to try to separate you from your hard earned money. Today I received an e-mail that made it through my spam filters that tried to get me to click into their site — who knows what it does once it gets there. The e-mail had a number of [...]

The Mint.com and On-Line Account Aggregator post has been a popular post. Many people are concerned about identify theft, and want to know how to protect themselves. We are going to address some of the ways to keep your on-line accounts safe here. The reality is that it is difficult to always keep track of [...]

In a previous post, Voting with Dollars: Credit Bureaus, I mentioned freezing credit at each of the bureaus. In
that post I also said that freezing your credit was free at TransUnion.  In fact, it was… but today I received a message from the credit bureau that it will no longer be free.  Maybe signs of [...]

I was reading a blog article on Free from Broke (http://freefrombroke.com/2009/05/receipts-prevent-credit-card-fraud.html) that identifies the importance of watching your credit card statements closely.
Credit cards can become a bit of a vicious cycle, not only from a debt perspective, but even from a tracking perspective. Just having a credit card makes it easier to spend, and makes [...]