by admin | Aug 19, 2015 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Earlier this week, the IRS announced that the hacking of its “Get Transcript” program, which they had originally announced in May and which was the subject of my Scam of the day for May 28th was far worse than they originally disclosed. While originally,...
by admin | Aug 18, 2015 | Scam of the day, Site Related
A good indication as to how pervasive income tax identity theft has become is the recent indictments filed in California against 32 members of the Long Beach gang called the Insane Crips. Among the charges were 299 counts of identity theft. Filing income tax returns...
by admin | Aug 17, 2015 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Income tax identity theft is a major problem. It costs the federal government and therefore the legitimate taxpayers an estimated 5 billion dollars per year. The IRS is fully aware of the problem and therefore has just issued final and temporary regulations that...
by admin | Aug 16, 2015 | Scam of the day, Site Related
On July 17th, the UCLA Health System publicly disclosed that it had been hacked since September of 2014 although the hack was discovered by UCLA on May 5th. I reported the hacking on Scamicide shortly after the public announcement by UCLA. The compromised...
by admin | Aug 15, 2015 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Here is a link to my latest column in USA Today. It deals with what I observed last week at the annual Def Con hackers conference in Las Vegas....
