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Happy Friday! This is Betty Lin-Fisher with today's The Daily Money. Each Friday, I will bring you a consumer-focused edition of this newsletter. |
Scammers are always coming up with new and elaborate ways to trick you out of your money. If it wasn't so lucrative, they'd stop. But scammers are upping the ante, now using in-person couriers or mules to come collect money directly from victims. |
This is a change in the playbook and more brazen, Chris Pierson, CEO of BlackCloak and a security expert, told me a few days ago. He was referring to new actions that were referenced in an alert this week by the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center. |
Scammers usually are hiding behind the veil of the Internet to scare victims into handing over their life's savings or important personal information. But there has been an uptick in the use of in-person couriers who are part of the crime ring and go to the victim to collect the money. | Scam promo image. Tara Winstead/pexels.com |
Target apparently is in need of a Black History Month history lesson. |
The retailer this week has pulled a "Civil Rights Magnetic Learning Activity" because it misidentified several Black icons. |
The error was highlighted when a consumer and history teacher on TikTok posted a video showing the mistakes and comparing the misidentified people to historical photos. It had more than 840,000 views this morning after it was posted on Tuesday. |
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It's Girl Scout Cookie season. You probably either love them or hate them – or just want to support the cause. I've got two Girl-Scout related items for you today. USA TODAY Deputy Opinion Editor Louie Villalobossays they're bad, but he still buys them. Here's why. |
Each weekday, The Daily Money delivers the best consumer news from USA TODAY. We break down financial news and provide the TLDR version: how decisions by the Federal Reserve, government and companies impact you. | | | | The FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center is reporting an uptick in cybercriminals using couriers for scams. Expert says it is a change in playbook. | | | |  | The "Civil Rights Magnetic Learning Activity" was removed from shelves for incorrectly identifying W.E.B. Du Bois, Booker T. Washington and Carter G. Woodson. | | | | COVID hospitalizations spiked during December. Here's what travelers should know about wearing a mask while flying and the air quality in a plane. | | | | Employers added 353,000 jobs in January and unemployment was 3.7%. Hiring likely to slow in 2024 after a COVID-related surge the past couple of years. | | | | "We just don't like the color anymore," Jackie Nguyen said in a video that's been viewed nearly 3 million times. She received a full refund on a nearly 3-year-old couch. | | | | More properties are charging their guests for parking – and sometimes, hotels charge guests who don't have a car. | | | | It's time for us to admit the cookies aren't great, but there's something special about helping kids outsell each other at Girl Scout Cookie season. | | | | Nicole Romanella O'Neal says talking about body flaws and weight could be harmful for young girls who are developing their relationship with food. | | | | Las Vegas will be busier than ever during Super Bowl 58, as hotel prices skyrocket. Here's what travelers going to the game should know. | | | | Tangenika Lee said that she shipped her son's remains from a UPS store in Georgia in early January to her sister in Connecticut and now it's lost. | | | | |  | Sign up for the news you want | Exclusive newsletters are part of your subscription, don't miss out! We're always working to add benefits for subscribers like you. | | | | | | |
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