by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Apr 15, 2014 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Today being the deadline for filing your federal income tax return is also a good time to remind you that identity theft and income tax identity theft can happen to anyone. It can even happen to the Attorney General of the United States. Recently convicted of this...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Apr 14, 2014 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Tomorrow is April 15th which is the last day for filing your federal income tax return unless you are a procrastinator who has filed an extension. Identity thieves and scammers love income tax season as it provides them with an opportunity for a wide variety of scams...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Apr 13, 2014 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Today’s Scam of the day comes directly from my email where I received the following email purporting to be from AT &T. This is an example of a phishing email that may appear to be from a legitimate source, but is from an identity thief. As with many...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Apr 12, 2014 | Scam of the day, Site Related
By now everyone is aware of the Heartbleed security flaw in the Open SSL security technology that has been used by two-thirds of the world’s websites to encrypt communications between computer users and these websites. Where until recently we were under the...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Apr 11, 2014 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Scammers and identity thieves are quite adept at taking advantage of whatever concern people may have at any particular time and, as you are aware, the announcement by Microsoft that it would no longer be issuing security updates for the Microsoft XP operating system...
