by admin | May 26, 2016 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Earlier this week, five people were arrested in Miami and accused of impersonating the IRS and calling people on the phone, telling them that unless they wired money immediately, they would be arrested. According to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax...
by admin | May 25, 2016 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Using cloned credit cards with account numbers stolen from a South African based bank, thieves managed to steal 12.7 million dollars from 1,400 ATMs in Japan earlier this month although the theft was only recently disclosed. The thieves used the counterfeit credit...
by admin | May 24, 2016 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Police in Virginia have been warning the public about an upswing in the phony kidnapping scam. Among the reported instances of this scam were phony reports of the kidnapping of students at George Mason University and young school children at area parochial schools. I...
by admin | May 23, 2016 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Large and small companies throughout the country are receiving phony notices of outstanding tax liens threatening actions such as seizing of bank accounts unless a settlement amount is paid. Recently the Massachusetts Department of Revenue issued a warning about such...
by admin | May 22, 2016 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Recently 117 million email addresses and passwords of LinkedIn users captured in a 2012 data breach of LinkedIn were offered for sale on the Dark Web, which is that part of the Internet where cybercriminals buy and sell stolen data. It may seem odd, but it is not...
