"Now then, little boy, what is your mommy's Social Security number, hmmm?" Photo by Mike Arney

While we’re making our lists and checking them twice, financial scammers are gearing up for their busiest time of the year. The holiday season abounds with opportunities to deceive and steal…

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American households, already squeezed by rising prices, are already struggling to make ends meet. Unfortunately, that creates an opportunity for financial scammers who prey on economic distress and desperation…

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Check fraud might seem old-fashioned in the modern era of digital banking, but it’s on the rise thanks to increasingly sophisticated criminal gangs. Victims may lose money for months, if not forever. Here’s how it usually works…

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Based on official Federal Trade Commission (FTC) data, 2023 is shaping up to be a brutal year for financial scams. The 30% increase in fraud will hit these 10 states hardest…

Detail from Joseph Overseer of the Pharoahs Granaries, by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1874) oil on canvas via Wikimedia Commons

“What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.” Bank runs, it turns out, date back to at least 2,000 BC. Today, we learn how the patriarch Joseph, son of Jacob, prepared himself and his people to use a run on Pharaoh’s bank to become wealthy…

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Lance Wallnau examines the recent chatter on the development of a FedCoin or “digital dollar.” He discovers this new technology does in fact solve a problem, but not the problem that its promoters would have you believe…

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The FTC released its 2022 financial fraud report, and the news isn’t good – overall, Americans lost an eye-watering $8.8 billion to scammers. Attorney General Merrick Garland offers some great advice that may halt just about any financial scam in its tracks…

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Is gold money? Guest writer and Birch Gold Group endorser Lance Wallnau argues that, not only is gold money, it’s such perfect money that it could be evidence of a creator…

This fixed-mintage 2 oz silver coin, available only from Birch Gold Group, memorializes the dynamic leader who took on the entire world, and almost won, before his exile to Saint Helena…