by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Sep 30, 2012 | Site Related
More and more credit card companies are issuing what are referred to as “smart cards” which are credit cards with Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology embedded in microchips in the card. The card can be used for purchases by merely holding the...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Sep 29, 2012 | Site Related
Following a complaint by the New York State Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman, Game Theory, a California company agreed to reform its business practices and pay $500,000 in penalties. According to the Attorney General’s office, Game Theory sent deceptive...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Sep 28, 2012 | Site Related
A tried and true scam that continues to effectively steal unsuspecting victims’ money is the mystery shopper scam. Part of the problem is that there are legitimate mystery shopper companies that hire people to do market research for major companies by shopping...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Sep 27, 2012 | Site Related
Our extensive use of electronic communications has become a boom for scammers and cybercriminals whose latest target are financial advisers and brokers. Financial advisers are receiving phony emails purporting to be from their customers asking them to wire money into...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Sep 25, 2012 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Symantec is a company that puts out excellent security software through its Norton susidiary. However, the very fact that their security software is well know for being effective makes its name easy to use by scammers in order to make you a victim of identity theft. ...
