by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Apr 29, 2013 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Once again, I had to go no further than my own email to find today’s scam of the day. Recently I received an email which purported to be from Wells Fargo Bank indicating there was a problem with my bank account and that my account was being blocked. In order...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Apr 29, 2013 | Scam of the day, Site Related
We all seem to want instant gratification and anything to make shopping easier and more convenient is considered attractive to many consumers. But with many instances of convenient shopping come vulnerabilities to scammers. American Express has recently partnered...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Apr 28, 2013 | Scam of the day, Site Related
LivingSocial, which is an online company that provides an assortment of deals on all types of goods and services just announced that it had been hacked and data on 50 million of its customers was stolen. The good news is that the hackers did not get customers’...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Apr 27, 2013 | Scam of the day, Site Related
The federal Do Not Call Registry was created in 2003 and permits people to register their landline or cell phone number on a list of telephone numbers that telemarketers are not permitted to call. For many of us who have found telemarketing calls to be a great...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Apr 26, 2013 | Scam of the day, Site Related
I make it a practice to constantly keep you advised about the latest security patches issued by computer software companies. Identity thieves and scammers are constantly discovering and exploiting vulnerabilities in the software that we all use in order to make us...
