by Steven Weisman, Esq. | May 26, 2014 | Scam of the day, Site Related
As we honor our veterans today on Memorial Day, scammers take Memorial Day as just another opportunity to scam veterans and others. A common scam used against veterans starts with a telephone call in which the veteran is told that in order to continue to receive...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | May 25, 2014 | Scam of the day, Site Related
With all puns intended, it looks like the movie Godzilla is turning into a monster hit. It recently received some additional publicity not from studio public relations people, but from hackers in San Francisco who hacked into an electronic road sign and reprogrammed...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | May 24, 2014 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Phishing is a common start to many scams. Phishing occurs when you respond to an email that appears to be from a legitimate company with which you do business only to learn that the official looking communication was a counterfeit, the sole purpose of which was to...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | May 23, 2014 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Finding bootleg versions of popular movies on the Internet is an easy task, but as a recent study by Intelligent Content Protection, an anti-piracy consulting service found, it comes with a risk and that risk is identity theft. In its study of thirty of the top...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | May 21, 2014 | Scam of the day, Site Related
The online auction website eBay just announced yesterday that it had been hacked and customer’s names, encrypted passwords, email addresses, physical addresses, phone numbers and dates of birth of as many as 112 million customers were stolen. At this time, it...
