Happy Thanksgiving – lets go shopping. As we head into the rush of the holiday season, it can be easy to pay less attention to certain details like ADs promoting excessive discounts, unusual web addresses and text messages about undeliverable packages, which can all be signs of online shopping scams. Between October and December 2023, $95.2 million in losses from online shopping scams were reported to the US Federal Trade Commission by consumers, according to the New York State Department of S
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I just returned from visiting family and friends in the Cleveland Ohio area. One Saturday morning, I stopped for coffee at a Starbucks, located at Croker Park shopping center. This shopping tends to attract high-end shoppers. I was there only because I was meeting a friend who lived nearby. I’m far from a high-end shopper. I then saw a robot cruise by and had to take a pic of this futuristic “security guard.”
A robot designed to fight crime and keep citizens safe in Westlake Ohio, was unvei
It is the most wonderful time of the year… unless you get scammed. The holiday shopping season is in full swing, and so are fraudsters looking to steal your money and more. With more people shopping online, digital retailers make getting your holiday shopping done easy; you can buy what you need without going outside. It also comes with its own unique risks. Digital payment fraud has been growing with criminals paying special attention to the Black Friday shopping season.
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