by admin | May 10, 2018 | Scam of the day
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has just announced that it is mailing refund checks to the victims of a tech support scam perpetrated by Universal Network Solutions. This company used pop-ups on their victims’ computers that appeared to come from Microsoft...
by admin | May 9, 2018 | Scam of the day
In an update of a Scam of the day from May 29, 2017 at which time I reported to you about the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Florida Attorney General obtaining a temporary injunction shutting down a phony debt relief scam operated by Jeremy Lee Marcus, Craig...
by admin | May 8, 2018 | Scam of the day
Konrads Voits of Ypsilanti, Michigan has been convicted of hacking into the computers of the Washtenaw County Jail and changing its records to provide for the early release of a friend of his. Voits was sentenced to 87 months in prison for his crime. In order to...
by admin | May 7, 2018 | Scam of the day
Mother’s day is coming up in five days and it is not too early to warn you about Mother’s Day scams. Although for many of us Mother’s Day is an opportunity to show our mothers how much we love and appreciate them, for scammers it is yet another...
by admin | May 6, 2018 | Scam of the day
I have been warning you about child identity theft for six years and unfortunately, the problem is worsening. According to a recently released report from Javelin Strategy & Research, a million American children became victims of identity theft last year at a cost...
