1. Ethics 2. Common sense 3. Financial education 4. Basic bookkeeping skills 5. Reduction of bank fees 6. Reduce rate of high school dropouts 7. Interest in the study of science 8. Computer... Read more >>

“This will go on your permanent record,” public school teachers used to warn us, hoping to encourage scholarship and ward off cheating. The fact is, there’s some validity to it.... Read more >>

I recently worked at a dry cleaners to help out a friend, and I saw a great deal of wrongdoing in that establishment. I witnessed an employee washing a customer’s 100-percent wool sweater,... Read more >>

You’ve heard about all those security card mess-ups that put credit card information in the hands of some scam artist, right? It almost seems as if it’s been quiet for a while—until... Read more >>

Internet scams are by no means a recent phenomenon, but certain scams come back again and again. Here are five popular Internet scams that you should be on the lookout for.  1. Auction fraud.... Read more >>

Senior citizens are more vulnerable to identity theft because they are more trusting and less aware of the increasing variety of scams. Although most of our older relatives have no interest in the... Read more >>

Senior financial exploitation often goes unreported. Factors that make seniors susceptible to financial abuse include isolation, loneliness, physical and/or mental disabilities, and lack of... Read more >>

According to Merriam Webster, fraud is the intellectual perversion of truth in order to induce another to part with something of value or surrender a legal right.  Academic fraud on the other... Read more >>

I read with amusement about outrage expressed over approximately $165 million AIG paid as bonuses to executives responsible for destroying their own company.  Although this represents less than... Read more >>

It’s not only politicians and unfaithful married men who lie. Women have learned they can profit by lying. A British judge just sentenced a married couple, Anne and John Darwin, to more than... Read more >>