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22,000 Wake Ups and Counting

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Phishing Scam Recovery: When Mom’s “Suspicious Activity” Text Wasn’t From Chase

Posted on May 18, 2026May 18, 2026 By Don MacLeod

A text arrives. Chase Bank. Suspicious activity. Click here to secure your account. She clicked. The woman in question — a former bank teller who’d literally watched other customers fall for this exact scheme — entered her login credentials, possibly her Social Security number, and hit submit. By the time…

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You’re Losing Hundreds Because Nobody Told You About Radar Dollar Bills

Posted on April 26, 2026April 26, 2026 By Don MacLeod

My mother had a thing for $2 bills. Kept them tucked away like they were bearer bonds. Meanwhile, I’ve been collecting coins for years — Roman pieces pushing 2,000 years old, Morgan dollars with that satisfying heft, the occasional oddball quarter that makes you stop and squint at the mint…

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DEAD BROKE AT 90 DAYS: The Survey Wall Street Doesn’t Want You to See

Posted on April 2, 2026April 2, 2026 By Don MacLeod

Financial collapse three months away. That’s the average cushion most Americans say they have before the bills stop getting paid. Not six months. Not a year. Three. A national survey of 1,421 adults, conducted in February 2026 by JG Wentworth, found that 40.8% of respondents could cover basic living expenses…

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The Dog Poop Business Is Real — And Making $30K a Year

Posted on January 19, 2026January 19, 2026 By Don MacLeod

I was reading about a guy in Derbyshire, England — you know, the place where sheep outnumber humans and the hills look like a screensaver — and his name is Kyle Newby. He’s 39. And he makes over $30,000 a year scooping dog poop out of people’s yards. Not as…

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Sometimes the Ground Really Does Give You Money

Posted on January 13, 2026January 13, 2026 By Don MacLeod

A man in Neuville-sur-Saône, France was digging a hole for a swimming pool and hit something solid. Not rock. Not a pipe. Something else. What came up were five gold bars and a pile of gold coins, wrapped in plastic bags and buried in his own backyard. Once the local…

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