I've often thought if criminals used their cunningness and channeled it to something positive, they could make a ton more money in the legitimate venture. Today, criminals will install surveillance equipment on ATM's in order to skim cutomers' information. You walk up to the ATM, insert your card, enter you PIN, and your banking information has been skimmed.

PostedJuly 27, 2011

AuthorMax

CategoriesCredit & Debt

TagsBanking, Credit Cards, Technology, Travel

The things you buy are influenced by many things around you. One of those things is people. Of those people, there are your friends, those you know from your religious affiliation, your co-workers, your neighbors and acquaintences. In today's world with social networking, you have even more contact with them than ever, thereby having them influence you to an even greater extent.

PostedJune 28, 2011

AuthorMax

CategoriesSaving Money

TagsFrugality, Technology

More and more, ecommerce is becoming a part of our everyday lives. We buy things from all kinds of merchants online from Sony to mom-and-pop-type stores; these transactions are subject to hackers that want to obtainl our sensitive information and steal our identity.But, there's a solution right at hand, or, right IN hand.

PostedJune 18, 2011

AuthorMax

CategoriesCredit & Debt

TagsCredit Cards, Fraud, Technology

It happens all the time. Either we see something someone else has or we see something advertised and we gotta have it. We think, they have it, why can't I? It may not even be impulsive; we could be thinking about it for days, and we decide we want it.

PostedJune 13, 2011

AuthorMax

CategoriesSaving Money

TagsCar Insurance, Frugality, Home, Saving Up, Technology

Well, unless you think reading a textbook is fun. Yep, besides checking your stocks, going online, getting directions, tweeting your friends and playing games, if you're in school you may be using your iPad to read your textbooks. Now you can get in touch with your textbooks as well as getting in touch with many other things.

PostedMarch 5, 2011

AuthorMax

CategoriesSaving Money

TagsCollege, Mobile, Technology, Textbooks

Having grown up with landlines, I really can't imagine life without them; I've always considered them my connection with the outside world. But, is that something I can do without?

PostedJanuary 19, 2011

AuthorMax

CategoriesSaving Money

TagsSaving, Spending, Technology

With the unemployment rate still hovering at 10%, crime will be on the rise. All the more reason we need to be aware of it. One in four Americans have had their identities stolen.

PostedJanuary 7, 2011

AuthorMax

TagsFraud, Health, Recession, Spending, Technology

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