Demetri Cirillo of Boca Raton, Fla., found more than $750,000 worth of checks in a gas station garbage can, but instead of stealing the bounty, Cirillo called police because, he says, he knows what it’s like to lose a huge sum of money. (Huffington Post) Cirillo, an avid coin collector, lost at least $100,000 worth […]

…mandatory field on tax form left blank Marketwatch.com — H&R Block, the nation’s largest tax preparer, confirmed that its software failed to fill out a mandatory field on Form 8863, which is used to claim educational credits. The IRS would not say what percentage of the roughly 600,000 faulty returns came from H&R Block (US: […]

…The Surprising Way Debt Collectors Know Where You Work BusinessInsider.com — It is “perhaps one of the most powerful and private databases of American’s personal information ever created, containing 190 million employment and salary records, covering more than one-third of US adults.” So there is this site called The Work Number and basically what they […]