by admin | Dec 17, 2015 | Scam of the day, Site Related
I first learned about this scam from Providence’s NBC 10 News consumer reporter, Emily Volz. It involves scammers getting access to the cellphone insurance of their victims and putting in claims whereby the scammers receive new cellphones which the scammers...
by admin | Dec 16, 2015 | Scam of the day, Site Related
I first reported to you in November 30th’s scam of the day of the hacking of Hong Kong company VTech Holdings Limited. The data breach involved data of almost 12 million people and included personal information on more than 200,000 children. VTech’s...
by admin | Dec 15, 2015 | Scam of the day, Site Related
As you all know by now and as I first reported to you in 2014 and again last summer, the federal Office of Personnel Management (OPM) was hacked by Chinese hackers who stole personal information of more than 21 million present and former federal employees as well as...
by admin | Dec 13, 2015 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Although we often think that identity theft is a high tech crime, in fact identity theft is a high tech, low tech and no tech crime. The Manhattan District Attorney recently arrested a married couple Kyle Steed and his wife Krystle Steed charging them in a 193 count...
by admin | Dec 13, 2015 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Today’s Scam of the day comes right from my email and I am sure that it has appeared in the email boxes of many of you, as well. This is just another version of the Nigerian email scam although this one appears to have originated in Ghana. Although it may...
