The risks of walking around with your credit card are obvious, but it's hard to be aware of all the countless online scams that may target your card. The scammer's objective in both situations is the ...

Imagine you receive your credit card statement and find 32 pages of more than 1,700 unauthorized charges, made one right ...

Emily Long is a freelance writer based in Salt Lake City. After graduating from Duke University, she spent several years reporting on the federal workforce for Government Executive, a publication of ...

The tactics used to fight credit card scams are getting more sophisticated all the time. Unfortunately, so are the tactics used by credit card scammers. More than 2.3 million cases of fraud and ...

The letter I got in the mail came out of the blue from a bank I’ve never done business with. I was informed they had received my application to open a Frontier Airlines credit card, but were declining ...

Early February may not appear to be a particularly hot season for fraud but think again. Here are two fraud schemes that are being seen more frequently this time of year... We are entering a season of ...

Clint Proctor is a managing editor with the credit cards and travel rewards team at Forbes Advisor. He has eight years of experience in personal finance journalism and has contributed to a variety of ...

Credit card authentication is a way of verifying that a person attempting a credit card transaction is who they say they are and that they are authorized to use that card.