With the holiday season comes more shopping and with more shopping comes more scams and fraudsters looking to take advantage of your holiday goodwill. From supposed charities looking for "donations" ...

GREEN BAY, Wis. (WBAY) - A Consumer First Alert to make sure you’re not giving scammers a gift this holiday: People are losing millions of dollars to gift card draining, where scammers steal the funds ...

Bill Noren is a musician and composer. He sat down at his computer to order a new doumbek — a goblet-shaped drum — that he’d use to keep the beat with his Middle Eastern belly dance drum group. Noren ...

Gift cards were supposed to be the safest, simplest present in the holiday arsenal. Instead, criminals have quietly turned them into a billion‑dollar pipeline, draining balances before many buyers or ...

Holly Johnson is a credit card expert and writer who covers rewards and loyalty programs, budgeting, and all things personal finance. In addition to writing for publications like Bankrate, CreditCards ...

Like millions of Americans do every year, Fran Golebowski bought some gift cards. She figured she’d dole them out as gifts to her children over time, she said. She made the purchase on Amazon on Dec.