Many have experienced financial hardship during the pandemic, and some have tried to bridge the economic gap with personal loans. But you need to be careful where you look for help. The Better Business Bureau is warning of fraudulent lenders looking to rip you off. We've got all the signs to watch for and ways to avoid falling victim.

There's even less reason to like work emails as scammers are targeting employees with messages that seemingly come from the higher-ups. Not only that, but they're recruiting native English speakers to pretty up the language, making the scam harder to detect. We'll show you what to look out for.

I've shared my fair share of tech tricks over the years. These quick tips help you do something new with your everyday tech, serve as a handy shortcut, or give you a fun fact to impress a tech-savvy friend. I'm back with 15 new tech secrets. Send hidden messages, clean your keyboard the easy way, dictate to your computer without downloading a thing and much more.

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I don’t trust Big Tech and you shouldn’t, either. You’ve heard me say for years that free email services like Gmail or Yahoo aren’t really free. There’s a big price to pay — your privacy. These free email sites scan, analyze and save details of every email you send and receive, giving Big Tech a very intimate and detailed profile of you so they can easily sell your data to the highest bidder.

That’s why I use StartMail. With StartMail, I can send encrypted emails with one click, even if the recipient doesn’t use encryption. And StartMail never scans or analyzes your emails. Best of all, when you delete an email, it’s gone — forever.

Don’t trust Big Tech with your data and privacy.