by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Mar 6, 2014 | Scam of the day, Site Related
“Spoofing” is the name for the tactic used by identity thieves to make a call that you receive appear to come from a legitimate source, when, in truth it is from a scammer who has merely managed to make it look like the call is legitimate. Many people are...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Mar 5, 2014 | Scam of the day, Site Related
In a recent regulatory filing Las Vegas Sands Corp, the parent company of a number of casinos, including the Sands and the Venetian in Las Vegas, as well as a number of other casinos in America and throughout the world disclosed for the first time that the data breach...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Mar 4, 2014 | Scam of the day, Site Related
I constantly am providing you with the latest security updates for many of the software programs that we all use. I do this because identity thieves and hackers are always working to identify and exploit vulnerabilities in these programs and use these vulnerabilities...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Mar 3, 2014 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Happy birthday to Charles Ponzi, the man credited with being the first to exploit the simple scam that has come to be known as a Ponzi scheme. Ponzi was born in 1882 which means had he not died in 1949, he would have been 132 years old today. To put this in...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Mar 2, 2014 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Florida resident, Carlos Gomez is suing Wells Fargo Bank for malicious prosecution relating to an incident of criminal identity theft. Gomez was falsely arrested in a predawn raid at his home in Kendall, Florida on crimes never committed by him, but were actually...
