by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jul 21, 2014 | Scam of the day, Site Related
A number of times I have written about email phishing scams that start when you receive an email that purports to be sent from AOL informing you that there is some problem with your AOL account which requires you to click on a link in order to rectify the problem. ...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jul 20, 2014 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Everyone is aware of our vulnerability to having our computers hacked through unwittingly downloading malware that often comes as an attachment to or a link in a phishing email that appears to be legitimate, but whose sole purpose is to lure us into downloading the...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jul 19, 2014 | Scam of the day, Site Related
No company is safe from the danger of hacking including, as we recently learned Major League Baseball teams. The Houston Astros were recently embarrassed to announce that their computers had been hacked by unknown hackers who released information about trade...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jul 18, 2014 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Lottery scams are one of the most common scams and with good reason. They are effective. Scammers will notify people that they have won a lottery and then often inform the victim that they need to pay administrative fees or income taxes in order to claim their...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jul 17, 2014 | Scam of the day, Site Related
With American students owing more than a trillion dollars in student loans, you could well have predicted scammers to identify this as a great opportunity to scam students and former students already struggling to pay their student loans and you would be right. Phony...
