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On Reddit, a user recently asked for help recovering from a credit card scam. The poster was more concerned with the emotional impact than the lost funds.

The person who posted expressed embarrassment about falling for the scam and didn’t know how to recover from the experience.

Respondents offered many good ideas: Try to recover the money. Focus on positive things in your life. Forgive yourself for making a mistake. Many assured the individual that anyone can fall for a scam and emphasized that there’s no reason to feel shame.

Experts on financial fraud and identity theft agree with that sentiment.

“The scammers are bad. You’re not bad. You were lied to,” says Eva Velasquez, president and CEO of the Identity Theft Resource Center. “We are all vulnerable.”

Even a fraud expert could fall for a scam, she adds.

That’s why knowing how to bounce back from a financial scam is the key to getting past it. Here’s how fraud experts say you can recover:

Keep track of exactly what happened

“Gather as much detailed information about what occurred as possible,” Velasquez says. Try to remember what you clicked on or who you interacted with. Those details can help determine the best way to proceed. read more

By STAN CHOE, AP Business Writer

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks rose to more records on Wednesday, as Wall Street still doesn’t care much about the shutdown of the U.S. government, but yields sank in the bond market following the latest discouraging signals on the economy.

The S&P 500 climbed 0.3% to top its prior all-time high, which was set last week. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 43 points, or 0.1%, to its own record set the day before, while the Nasdaq composite rose 0.4%.

The action was stronger in the bond market, where Treasury yields dropped after a report suggested hiring may have been much weaker across the country last month than economists expected.

Employers outside the government actually cut 32,000 more jobs than they added, according to the survey by ADP Research, with the Midwest taking particularly hard hits. What’s worse, the survey also revised down its numbers for employment in August, to a loss of 3,000 jobs from a previously reported gain of 54,000.

Usually, traders on Wall Street wait for a more comprehensive jobs report that comes from the U.S. government each month to suss out how the job market is doing. The U.S. government gets its data from a larger sample of employers than the ADP survey, which does not have a perfect track record predicting what the more comprehensive report will say each month. read more

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO and JONEL ALECCIA, Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) — Walmart said Wednesday that it plans to remove synthetic food dyes and 30 other ingredients, including some preservatives, artificial sweeteners and fat substitutes, from its store brands sold in the United States by January 2027.

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The move announced by the the nation’s largest retailer amounts to an acknowledgment that American consumers and the U.S. government under President Donald Trump are paying attention to what goes into packaged foods. Walmart said its goal would affect about 1,000 products, including salty snacks, baked goods, power drinks, salad dressings and frosting. read more

Port Canaveral has had such a busy year supporting SpaceX’s rocket recovery efforts, it brought in a new crane to assist in the launch parade on the Space Coast.

Port CEO Capt. John Murray said the third mobile harbor crane operated by the port arrived on Aug. 3.

“We had this crane modified somewhat to accommodate Relativity Space’s rocket that they may be modifying and it may not work as we originally intended.” he said. “They may have a different booster now.”

Murray did note that all of the port’s cranes, two of which top 320 feet tall, had been modified for the space industry.

“We did that with the very first one,” he said. “Major modification is the elevation of the mast. If you don’t have enough range to lift up at a high point, then you can’t move a booster off a recovery vehicle. So we did that with the first crane, and we’ve kept that in place.”

The third crane has modified counterweights that would allow the lift of a taller, heavier booster, which would have worked for Relativity’s Terran R based off earlier specifications, but those have since changed, according to port officials. read more