by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Mar 22, 2013 | Scam of the day, Site Related
As I constantly remind you, it is tremendously important to keep your security software up to date with the latest patches and improvements. Identity thieves and scammers take advantage of the fact that many people either delay or don’t bother at all to install...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Mar 21, 2013 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Recently Woburn, Massachusetts police arrested a newspaper delivery person whom they allege stole $225,000 from the customers on his route. According to the Woburn police, the delivery person took the checks he received as tips and forged phony checks using the...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Mar 20, 2013 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Most scams are not new, but just variations on old tried and true scams. In fact, the Nigerian letter of today traces its origin to a similar type of scam that was done in the 1500s when it was called the Spanish Prisoner scam. So it is with an old scam that has...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Mar 18, 2013 | Scam of the day, Site Related
The FBI recently announced that identity thief Lawrence Fudge was convicted and sentenced for running an identity theft ring in Philadelphia for at least six years before being caught. Fudge obtained personal information from rogue employees he bribed in banks and...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Mar 17, 2013 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Lottery scams are one of the most popular scams for scam artists because they work so effectively. They start when you receive a telephone call telling you that you have won some lottery, usually based in a foreign country. Soon thereafter, however you are told that...