credit card theft

As more Americans shop online for the holidays, they're falling prey to increasingly sophisticated scams. In response, on Cyber Monday, the Justice Department busted 82 sites for allegedly selling counterfeit and pirated goods, but more crooks are out there.

Open your wallet. Take a look at the first credit card you see. Now look closer, past the large bank logo at the holograph, run your fingers over the embossed and silver tipped numbers and letters. Go ahead and flip it over and you may even have a special logo running through the signature block....

The Dave & Buster's food and entertainment chain got publicly spanked by the Federal Trade Commission after being accused of leaving more than 130,000 of its customers' credit and debit card information left vulnerable to hackers -- causing hundreds of thousands of dollars of unauthorized and...

For those of you who think of credit card theft as a high-tech crime performed online by e-savvy thieves, credit card shaving may sound SO 20th century. But it works -- depending, as usual, on the inattentiveness of store clerks. Credit card shaving depends on glue and razor blades as much as...