by admin | May 12, 2016 | Scam of the day, Site Related
In April 19th’s Scam of the day I told you about the recent FBI warning about a dramatic increase in what it calls the Business email compromise scam (BEC). The scam involves an email to the people who control payments at a targeted company. These people...
by admin | May 11, 2016 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Earlier this week, Marc A. Bell, a juvenile justice worker was sentenced to four years in prison for his role in an income tax identity theft ring operated out of a Washington D.C. barbershop that stole more than 42 million dollars in phony income tax refunds. Bell...
by admin | May 10, 2016 | Scam of the day, Site Related
It was just six days ago that I described to you how scammers posing as IRS agents are calling people, threatening them with serious penalties including jail time if they did not pay the scammers by way of iTunes gift cards. Although it may seem ridiculous that...
by admin | May 9, 2016 | Scam of the day, Site Related
The significance to the headline, “Sex offender pleads guilty to identity theft” is not necessarily immediately apparent. Recently Fernando Neave-Ceniceros, a convicted sex offender pleaded guilty in Federal District Court in Wichita, Kansas to misusing a...
by admin | May 8, 2016 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Here is a link to Steve Weisman’s latest column for USA Today. It describes the extreme danger we all face from ransomware and what you can do about it....
