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If you are mailing off checks to pay bills or even to send to friends/family, you might want to rethink doing that according to new warnings.

This is not a realistic option for everyone, but authorities have issued an urgent warning to Illinois residents to stop mailing checks or to potentially suffer dire consequences.

Technology is very convenient, but be careful!

It may seem harmless, but there's more to it than meets the eye.

Those missing pet posts on Facebook could lead to being scammed.

Wouldn't it be great if we had so few scams going in Illinois that you could easily guess which scam claims the most victims here in our state?

I just read a statistic that says the average Facebook user has 338 friends. The stat went on to point out that the average Facebook user is connected to fewer genuine friends than people they've never met in person, which comprises 39% of users' connections.

So, you're kicking out $139 a year (up from $119) on an Amazon Prime membership, and you'd like to save a bunch of money on different things as Amazon wheels and deals with their annual Prime Day event, which wraps up later today.

In the real world, most of us do our very best to be decent people. So when we get a call from someone who says that they're with a government agency, our default behavior setting is generally to be cooperative.

There have been scams around as long as humans have been around, which means that there are thousands of different ways for the unscrupulous among us to trick people out of their money.