 TITLE: How to Protect Yourself If You’ve Been Scammed Online CONTENT: Contact Your Banks and Credit Card Companies\n--------------------------------------------\nIf the scam involved your credit card information or login credentials for your financial accounts, contact your banks and credit card companies immediately to cancel your cards and receive new ones.\nWhile you're getting help with this process, ask the representative to check your recent transactions to make sure you recognize them. If there are some that you don't, you can flag them as fraudulent.\nAlso, take some time to change your online passwords to stop the criminal from accessing your accounts. If you use the same password on more than one website, update each account with a unique password to make it more difficult for hackers to crack.\nIf you have many different passwords and need help keeping track of them, consider registering for a password manager like LastPass or 1Password. END