Card skimmers are hard to spot and on the rise. Here's what you can do to protect yourself.

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A credit card skimmer seized by police during an investigation into identity theft in Glendale, CA.
A credit card skimmer seized by police during an investigation into identity theft in Glendale, CA.

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A stolen painting found in a plastic bag at a London bus stop just sold for $22 million.

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A Christie's curator holds Titian's "Rest on the Flight into Egypt."

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Larry Ray was accused of starting a sex cult of college students at Sarah Lawrence. Here's where he is today.

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Former US attorney for the Southern District of New York, Geoffrey Berman, announced the indictment against Larry Ray on February 11, 2020.

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Mexican cartels have stolen over $300 million from American seniors in elaborate timeshare property scams

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Money seized by the National Police during the dismantling of the Sinaloa Cartel in Spain, at the Canillas Police Complex.
Money seized by the National Police during the dismantling of the Sinaloa Cartel.

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Hunter Biden was always doomed to lose his trial. His best bet is appealing a 'vindictive prosecution.'

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How scammers used 'social engineering' to steal over $1 million from an Idaho town of less than 4,000 people

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An Idaho town lost more than $1 million to scammers.

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Conspiracy theory-fueled newspaper Epoch Times grew revenue 4x thanks to CFO's crypto crime proceeds, feds say

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The Epoch Times

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American Airlines backtracks after saying 9-year-old girl 'should have known' flight attendant was filming her in the bathroom: lawsuit

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A cellphone reportedly taped to the inside of a toilet on an American Airlines flight.
A separate family says that their teen daughter discovered a cellphone taped to the inside of a toilet seat on an American Airlines flight.

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Lauren Boebert skipped Congress to support Trump's trial, but didn't show up to her own son's hearings: reports

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Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., stands in front of numerous microphones, looking directly to camera, as she speaks outside the hush money criminal case of former president Donald Trump in New York on Thursday, May 16, 2024
Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., speaks outside the hush money criminal case of former president Donald Trump in New York on Thursday, May 16, 2024

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An engineering giant behind Apple's HQ and the Sydney Opera House lost $25 million when scammers tricked an employee with a deepfake of a senior exec

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An employee at the company's Hong Kong office was subject to the scam.

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