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The men and women in my family have proudly served in every branch of the military. My grandad saw snow for the first time in France during WWI and my dad and uncles were stationed in Germany pre-Vietnam. My college roommate’s father was a Tuskegee Airman and even I was in the ROTC in college. I h...

Don’t fall victim to an IRS tax scam. Yes, we all get phone calls from telemarketers, fundraisers, creditors etc. Sometimes, there is a legitimate reason why a caller is asking for money, but increasingly often, consumers are receiving calls from scammers pretending to be from a legitimate org...

Fraudsters take advantage of holiday cheer It’s hard to put an exact dollar figure on how much consumers lose from scams, but, according to one report, the Federal Trade Commission estimated that there were nearly 49 million individual annual fraud transactions with an average loss of $60 -- total...