I’ve written here about the lottery scams where a consumer receives a notice in the mail informing them that they have won the lottery, complete with an enclosed check.
The recipient is instructed to cash the check and send a portion of the money back to the sender to pay for “taxes” on the winnings. The [...]

This story from Georgia nicely illustrates a point I made in an earlier post about how thieves obtain personal and financial information from consumers in order to commit crimes.
In this particular case, two servers who worked at an Applebee’s restaurant were gathering credit card numbers and providing them to another person who was using the credit card [...]