by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Mar 31, 2012 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Phishing occurs when an identity thief lures you through a phony email that purports to be from a legitimate company to a bogus website that looks like the website of the legitimate company that the scammers pretend to be. The website requries you to provide personal...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Mar 31, 2012 | Scam of the day, Site Related
One of the largest thefts of credit card information in history has been recently discovered involving up to ten million MasterCard and Visa credit cards. As with all of your personal information, you are only as safe as the places that have your personal and...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Mar 30, 2012 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Draw Something is a Pictionary type game that has been available online since February and has been downloaded more than thirty-five million times. Scammers, pretending to be from Draw Something are taking advantage of the game’s popularity by tweeting...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Mar 28, 2012 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Recently the operators of the online children’s game site RockYou settled a claim of the Federal Trade Commission that it did not properly protect the privacy of its users and failed to use proper security resulting in the site being hacked and the information...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Mar 27, 2012 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Recently many farmers around the country have reported receiving phone calls or faxes purporting to be from the United States Department of Agriculture complete with the USDA logo and seal. Many of these faxes are from USDA Senior Procurement Officer Frank...