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Phishing Won’t Put a Good Meal on Your Table

By cpierson on March 2, 2010

This type of phishing doesn’t involve a good salmon steak or fresh flounder fillets. It is actually a scheme that involves fraudulent e-mails that try to get you to give out your personal information. These days, many of those e-mails are about forclosures and other concerns about mortgages and refinancing. The crooks who trade in identity theft [...]

The Best Place is Home, After All

By cpierson on December 26, 2009

If you ask people aged 50+ where they want to grow old, the vast majority will say their own home. And the evidence bears out that your own home is a much cheaper alternative to residential centers. So the question then becomes will your home allow you to “age in place”? Safety, mobility, ease of [...]

Keeping an Eye Out for Scams

By cpierson on October 20, 2009

Is there any opportunity that is safe from scams? Seems not! The National Consumer Law Center recently reported that some of the aggressive and abusive lenders from the subprime mortgage market, whose practices helped get us into our current economic mess, are back. And this time they are trying to run their deals in the reverse mortgage arena.
Reverse [...]