New Consumer Action publication: Digital Dollars

Posted by on July 23, 2012

We would like to tell you about the new Consumer Action series on “Digital Dollars”, which provides information, advice and training materials to help consumers navigate the new online economy. This series contains three multilingual brochures, which are:

1)    “Your Digital Dollars – Banking online safely. Protect your identity and accounts while banking by computer.”
Paying a bill, depositing a check or conducting any other financial transaction used to require a trip to the bank or post office. New technology makes it possible to bank and pay bills without leaving your home or office.
http://www.consumer-action.org/modules/articles/your_digital_dollars-banking_online_safely

2)    “Your Digital Dollars – Mobile banking and mobile payments. Make financial transactions safely on the go.”
Check your balance…transfer money…make a purchase—these are just a few of the things you can do on the go with a cellular telephone or other mobile device.
http://www.consumer-action.org/modules/articles/your_digital_dollars-mobile_banking_and_mobile_payments

3)    “Your Digital Dollars – Safety and privacy in online and mobile transactions. Protect your identity and data while banking or paying digitally.”
As more daily tasks, from shopping and banking to working and socializing, get done on a computer or mobile device, the opportunities to expose personal data increase.
http://www.consumer-action.org/modules/articles/your_digital_dollars-safety_and_privacy_in_online_and_mobile_transactions

These three publications are available for free in bulk to all nonprofit community organizations and government agencies, in English, Spanish, Korean, Chinese and Vietnamese. Also, they are accompanied by a lesson plan and PowerPoint slides that you can download at http://www.consumer-action.org/modules/module_digital_dollars

To order these publications, please download a PDF order form by clicking this link, http://www.consumer-action.org/downloads/english/DigitalDollars_Order_Form.pdf then fax your completed order form to (415) 777-5267, or mail it to Consumer Action, 221 Main Street, Suite 480, San Francisco, CA 94105.

If you have any questions, please email [email protected] or call (415) 777-9648.