Saturday 28 November 2015

Buyer Beware: Protect Yourself While Holiday Shopping

It’s no secret that Holiday 2015 shopping is in full swing. In fact, the nation’s transition from pumpkin to peppermint felt so much faster this year, many a Facebook feed near me growled and bemoaned the early onset of the holiday season.

That said, we all have shopping to do and during the mad rush, scams abound. It’s easy to see how the sensible, commonplace everyday security measures may fall through the cracks as we seek to make our lists and check them twice. Worse still, as hackers get slicker and more sophisticated, personal information hacks now go far beyond random entities calling, posing as our health care provider and randomly asking for a social security number.

We reached out to a few experts to see what they recommend for consumers. Here are some tips to protect yourself and your accounts during your holiday mad dash. For the full article click here 



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