Category: Business

The Best Gifts For OFW’s This Christmas – Financial Education and Abundant Mindset

One of the best gifts you can give to yourself and your family this Christmas is financial education and an abundant mindset.

If you are an OFW who’s going for vacation in the Philippines these final weeks of the year, why don’t you or your family members attend these seminars and workshops to equip you with the basics and fundamentals of investing and entrepreneurship?

Get yourself motivated as well by upcoming inspirational events and positive mind-setting sessions.

Check out the following seminar and event schedules of OFW UsapangPiso‘s partner institutions and organizations for the last part of November up to December this year: Continue reading The Best Gifts For OFW’s This Christmas – Financial Education and Abundant Mindset

OFW’s, Protect Your Money This Christmas Season

Quite a number of OFW’s are starting their homecoming (vacation) at this time. Most of them are staying up until Christmas or New Year’s Day. This is also the period and season when OFW’s are the main “target market” of scammers.

So how will an OFW be able to spot a financial scam such as pyramiding and avoid being the next victim while enjoying his or her vacation with loved ones?

Here are a few quick points to remember to protect you, your family, and your money during the Holidays: Continue reading OFW’s, Protect Your Money This Christmas Season

Protect Yourself From Identity Theft [Online] (Part 2)

In my previous post, Protect Yourself From Identity Theft (Part 1), we talked about the dangers of exposing your personal details on Facebook such your ID screenshots, passports, licenses, etc.

We also mentioned about the dangers in using credit cards in commercial establishments and I gave the Barnes and Noble credit card fraud incident in the US as an example.

And then we illustrated how a blogger’s account was copied and contents such as photos even with watermarks were stolen by an online thief.

With just those three classic examples of identity theft scenarios, we should remember that social media profiles and personal experience blogs are like public records of your personal information. Even if you decide to delete them later on, someone else must have already stolen what you posted before. Nightmares, huh?

Let’s now see what are the basic measures we can do to protect our identities online. Continue reading Protect Yourself From Identity Theft [Online] (Part 2)