Fraud alerts and credit freezes help protect you from identity theft, either by alerting creditors to take extra steps to ...

In April, a Forsyth County man was arrested by the Hall County Sheriff’s Office for allegations of illegally using a company ...

Credit cards and banking specialist Jenn Underwood brings over 16 years of personal finance experience to the table. After a decade of teaching courses in banking, debt reduction, budgeting and credit ...

Imagine receiving a notification about suspicious charges on a credit card you haven’t even received yet. How could that happen? While it sounds surprising and unsettling, it's increasingly common due ...

It's easy to think of credit card fraud and picture someone skimming your card at a gas pump. But that's not usually how it happens. The bigger threat is new account fraud. Someone opens a credit card ...

When a live-in partner uses your credit cards without telling you, who's liable, and can you actually fight the charges?

Kelly-Ann Franklin has spent more than two decades in journalism which has helped her build a wide knowledge base of business and personal finance topics. Her goal with editing is to ensure tough ...

Yep -- got the email a couple of days ago, and it seems my personal info was caught up in a massive bank data breach. Hackers now have access to my full name, address, birthdate, email, phone number - ...

Credit card authentication is a way of verifying that a person attempting a credit card transaction is who they say they are and that they are authorized to use that card.

Beyond rewards: how credit cards protect purchases, prevent fraud and add real value.

After a City Furniture credit card with the stolen identity of a man in Torrance, California, was approved, a woman in Miami went shopping, according to deputies.