excellent morning! It’s Daniel de Visé with your Daily Money, Friday customer edition.

As you’re celebrating with co-workers during the office holiday event, do you foresee gift exchanges as part of the festivities?

Is it OK to provide a co-worker a gift? Should you buy your boss one?

Those are excellent questions. Betty Lin-Fisher has answers.

Is it OK to regift?

During this period of giving, is it OK to provide someone a gift you don’t desire or can’t use?

Or is it in impoverished taste to regift?

How to avoid holiday scams

Consumers are expected to spend billions this holiday period on gifts, including online.

But scammers are looking for their piece of the pie, tricking consumers into fraudulent purchases or gaining access to their funds.

Fraudsters are hoping consumers are busy during the holiday period, which may navigator them to let down their guard.

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Daniel de Visé covers money management for USA Today.