May 2018

Don’t Pay fees to lower your payments

Don’t pay fees to company that promise to lower your car payment or stop a repossession.  This is almost always a scam.  Never pay upfront for a service like this and make sure to talk to the lender during the…

Change your Twitter Password

by Ari Lazarus Consumer Education Specialist, FTC You may have heard the recent news that Twitter discovered a bug that stored passwords “unmasked” in an internal log. What does this mean? If you are a Twitter user, your password could…

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Are you sick of robocalls and wish you could block them?

If you answer the phone and hear a recorded message instead of a live person, it’s a robocall.  We’ve seen a significant increase in the number of illegal robocalls because internet-powered phone systems have made it cheap and easy for…