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Check washing is back, and it can cost you money. Once considered an old-fashioned scam, it is popular again with fraudsters because it is so easy for crooks to alter checks with simple chemicals or with new digital tools like AI to forge identities and amounts. According to the FBI Suspicious Activity Reports, check fraud
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Alcohol and hot weather can be an especially dangerous mix. Drinking impairs judgment and increases risk-taking any time. In hot weather, you add the potential risk of heat stroke caused by dehydration. That’s because alcohol lowers the body’s tolerance for heat and acts as a diuretic, meaning it causes the body to lose more fluid
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Since our mental health is connected to our physical well-being, these FREE fitness apps will help motivate you at home or on the road. They offer exercises including yoga, measure your walks and hikes, and meditation to help you sleep more restfully when day is done.
Scam Alert. Unfortunately, many cars and trucks flooded in hurricanes and other deep water disasters wind up for sale by unscrupulous dealers to unsuspecting customers. Here are the signs of a flood-damaged vehicle, to avoid getting soaked by buying one that is dangerous to drive.
Scam Alert: Vacations are not the time to relax your personal safety online. Avoid identity theft before, during and after a vacation by taking these simple steps for internet security. Everyday, it seems, we hear about hacking, doxxing, identity theft or some other invasion of our digital privacy. Here’s how to protect your online life
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Your boarding pass is – literally – your ticket to ride. You can’t get on the plane without it, starting with checking a bag and getting through security. So why would you take the chance of depending on your phone’s battery life or the airline’s app system?
Whether you are ordering a rideshare service like Uber or Lyft in the USA or a similar service in the USA or overseas, your personal safety before and during your ride should be a top priority. Here are common sense rideshare safety tips to avoid becoming one of the growing number of riders – especially women riding alone and intoxicated passengers – who report being robbed or assaulted.
Choose one of these charities to support with a donation to help earthquake victims in Venezuela with life-saving food, water, shelter, warm clothing and medical services, and start the rebuilding, including roads and power lines.
Now that gas prices are higher than they’ve been in years because of the US war on Iran, it’s important again to save money at the pump. You can do that if you tune up, slow down, lighten up, and use money-saving apps to find the least expensive gas near you. Here’s how: How to
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It’s a spring thing. April showers bring May flowers. And potholes. Here’s how to avoid pothole damage to your vehicle, which can cost repair bills from an average $300 to more than $1,000.