The reason all money would initially go into money market accounts is a largely unknown peculiarity in the way the feds now keep Social Security records: Employers send in Social Security taxes in lump sums periodically throughout the year.

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Pyra's Blogger.com suffered a security breach in October, during which unknown hackers seized control of individual user accounts and locked them out from their Blogger accounts.

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The key is to remain skeptical, avoid unknown links, verify claims and make sure you change passwords on important accounts on a fairly regular basis.

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The commodity-linked funds had their first month of positive inflows in March for the year, with 487, 000 ounces of the metal added to the 13 funds tracked by UBS. Although those are a small portion of the overall appetite for money market accounts globally, it represents gains into an area that was unknown a decade ago.

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While the exact number of these activists is unknown, Mr Loi revealed that his organisation is running at least 400 online accounts and 20 microblogs.

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