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Like many people during the Covid scare, Moneyweb reader Jon Halana* thought he could spice up his retirement savings by exploring the more exotic fringes of the investment world. He stumbled on a UK-based website called MainTrade, which…

Consumers are under a lot of financial strain. The World Economic Forum reports that the cost-of-living crisis is affecting people across the globe. With food and fuel prices rising, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to keep financially…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain You have just returned home after a long day at work and are about to sit down for dinner when suddenly…

As I became increasingly sceptical, we asked for more evidence that he was really with the bank’s fraud unit.We asked for his direct number so that we could call him back. He claimed he was calling on a secure and encrypted line that was…

The money Australians lose to scams is expected to more than double this year as cybercriminals become more sophisticated and their methods more complex, with consumers urged to be extra careful handing over personal data during the…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Statistics on the number of scam websites that litter the internet are disturbing. During 2020, Google registered more than 2 million phishing websites alone.…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Money transfer apps are a convenient way to send and receive money, but scammers can use them to steal your…

If you don’t use Twitter often, you may be unaware of how the site has dissolved into organizational chaos. But it’s a mess right now—and dangerous as a result. Prior to the company’s sale to Elon Musk, Twitter had a verification…

Prosecutors say a mother-daughter duo made off with an ill-gotten $850,000 in transactions from 2008 to 2021, according to the New York Post.The pair appeared in court last week and pled not guilty. On the way out of the…

“Ipsa scientia potestas est,” 16th-century philosopher and statesman Sir Frances Bacon famously wrote in his 1597 work, Meditationes Sacrae. Knowledge itself is power. The aphorism, cliché as it may be, takes on a palpable truth in times of…