Date: Thu, 15. May 2008 11:25:33

The Web is filled with bogus offers. Some appear as pop-up ads.  If you are offered a big ticket item for free ? a widescreen TV, portable music player,  or $500 gift card ? it?s a scam.

Date: Wed, 9. July 2008 19:45:17

GSTAAD, Switzerland, July 9 (UPI) -- Top-seeded Stanislas Wawrinka survived a three-set battle with a wild card player Wednesday to reach the quarterfinals in the Swiss Open.

Date: Thu, 15. May 2008 11:25:33

The Web is filled with bogus offers. Some appear as pop-up ads.  If you are offered a big ticket item for free ? a widescreen TV, portable music player,  or $500 gift card ? it?s a scam.

Date: Fri, 27. June 2008 01:38:00

By ANGELA K. BROWN An Air Force colonel was sentenced to nine years in prison Thursday and kicked out of the military for assaulting a woman, misusing his government travel card and other crimes at Sheppard ...

Date: Thu, 15. May 2008 11:25:33

The Web is filled with bogus offers. Some appear as pop-up ads.  If you are offered a big ticket item for free ? a widescreen TV, portable music player,  or $500 gift card ? it?s a scam.

Date: Wed, 13. August 2008 20:47:00

Consumers have some not-so-nice things to say about credit-card companies and federal regulators have given them the chance to air their gripes.

Date: Tue, 22. July 2008 23:07:03

Debit card that allows borrowing from your 401(k) is getting no credit from retirement savings experts, reports Jonathan Burton.

Date: Wed, 1. October 2008 17:25:00

Find out why money market funds may not be as safe as you think, learn why the credit-card crisis is set to replace the subprime crisis, and get the shocking real story on McCainonomics, all in today's Personal Finance section.

Date: Tue, 16. December 2008 03:05:36

BobB-nw writes "Underground botnet markets and high-profile spam cases headlined the year in tech crime. One of the most disturbing cybercrime trends in 2008, many security analysts say, has been the emergence of a full-blown underground economy where credit card information, identity theft information, and spam and phishing software are all available for relatively low prices. 2008 also saw major developments in the cases against three major spammers in the United States."pa href="http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/15/1538245amp;from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=08/12/15/1538245"/a/ppa href="http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/15/1538245amp;from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/YNx3bxnauyFIavyw3uKf24gA6Ds/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/YNx3bxnauyFIavyw3uKf24gA6Ds/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/HdAtmHfF_lE" height="1" width="1"/

Date: Sat, 24. May 2008 15:04:04

angelheaded writes "Brian Krebs from the Washington Post is reporting that the Bush administration is proposing a new tax collection program that would force credit card companies to report merchants' income to the Internal Revenue Service. The plan has come under fire from privacy groups, who say it will create another private sector database tied to Social Security numbers at a time when ID theft experts are urging companies to wean themselves from the use and collection of such information."Read more of this story at Slashdot.