by Steven Weisman, Esq. | May 21, 2013 | Scam of the day, Site Related
People are always interested in gossip, photos, videos, stories and news about celebrities. Unfortunately, scam artists know this and take advantage of our curiosity to lure us to click on links that promise to provide photographs and videos as well as interest...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | May 20, 2013 | Scam of the day, Site Related
As I often tell you, it is critical to keep your software programs updated with the latest security patches. Identity thieves and scammers are constantly locating and exploiting flaws in the software we all use in an effort to steal from us, make us victims of...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | May 19, 2013 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Phishing, as I have described on Scamicide and in my book “50 Ways to Protect Your Identity in a Digital Age” is the name for the tactic used by identity thieves by which you are lured to a phony website to provide information used to make you a victim of...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | May 18, 2013 | Scam of the day, Site Related
In just the latest installment of a state or federal agency having its records hacked, the Washington State Administrative Office of the Courts recently disclosed that months earlier its website was hacked and that as many as 160,000 Social Security numbers and a...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | May 17, 2013 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Recently a 21 year old college student in France accepted a Facebook “friend request” by a beautiful, young woman or at least he thought the friend request came from a beautiful, young woman. Their relationship blossomed on line with frequent messages...
