Identity Theft

People who live in the "Treasure State," also known as Montana, received the least amount of Spam according to web security company Message Labs, which scanned three billion email to arrive at a least of the most-spammed states. Is your in-box on it?

You may know the basics about your credit score, but there's more to it than just paying your bills on time. Ken and Daria Dolan take you behind the hidden tricks of credit reporting so you can keep you score high.

Small rural and suburban communities - some with few structures taller than a good-sized maple tree - might be unlikely targets for terrorists, but many of them are protecting their police stations and water towers with terrorism insurance.

Personal information on about 1,000 patients at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center may have been revealed.

Jocelyn Kirsch, a 22-year-old woman, lived the high life stealing other people's identites.

Information from more than 50,000 credit card accounts -- and perhaps as many as 200,000 accounts -- was taken from online shoppers at Wards.com, now run by a direct mail company. While the catalog company reported the breach to credit card processors and authorities, cardholders were left in the dark.

There are countless scams and con artists who prey on unsuspecting consumers. Generally, they offer a large financial reward for minimal effort or attempt to steal credit card and banking information to use for their own benefit. In this article we have examined some of the more common scams to be aware of.