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• Avoiding Phishing Scams

  Stratton, Jess

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  Online course on the telltale signs of phishing scams and how to avoid giving up your vital information.

• Child Identity Theft

  What Every Parent Needs to Know

  Chappell, Robert P., 1962-

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  A look at the growing number of identity theft cases involving children as victims.

• The Confidence Game

  Why We Fall for It... Every Time

  Konnikova, Maria

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  Insights into con artists, with interesting examples revealing how they work and why they are successful.

• Cyber Fraud, Theft, and Organized Crime

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  Explains common types of organized cybercrime, fraud, and identity theft

• Fancy Bear Goes Phishing

  the Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks

  Shapiro, Scott

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  The story of how cybercrime has evolved, from the 1980s to now.

• The Fine Print

  How Big Companies Use "plain English" and Other Tricks to Rob You Blind

  Johnston, David Cay, 1948-

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  Johnston exposes the devious strategies, hidden in the fine print, companies use to legally cheat consumers.

• Nobody's Fool

  Why We Get Taken in and What We Can Do About It

  Simons, Daniel J.

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  Explains the science of how scams manipulate people, and how to be aware of their tricks to avoid being deceived.

• Preventing Credit Card Fraud

  a Complete Guide for Everyone From Merchants to Consumers

  Lee, Jen Grondahl

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  Explains how Internet businesses utilize credit card fraud to steal your money and how you can protect yourself.

• Scammed

  How to Save Your Money and Find Better Service in a World of Schemes, Swindles, and Shady Deals

  Elliott, Christopher, 1968-

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  Elliott exposes corrupt business practices in order to protect consumers and their resources.

• Scam Me If You Can

  Simple Strategies to Outsmart Today's Rip-off Artists

  Abagnale, Frank W., 1948-

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  Explains strategies used by current scammers and the best techniquest to stop them.

• Swiped

  How to Protect Yourself in a World Full of Scammers, Phishers, and Identity Thieves

  Levin, Adam (Adam K.)

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  Explains the various problems that identity theft can cause for victims' lives and what steps people can take before and after it happens to make themselves better protected.