by admin | Nov 10, 2018 | Uncategorized
A common theme in many scams, including phony lottery scams and the infamous grandparent scam, is that the scammers will require the victim to wire money rather than use a credit card or a check. Once money has been wired, it is all but impossible to trace or stop...
by admin | Nov 9, 2018 | Uncategorized
I wrote earlier this year about Twitter and Facebook scams involving a number of celebrities such as Dwayne Johnson, Tyler Perry and Elon Musk and now a new variation of the Twitter Elon Musk scam is turning up. Posing as a famous person on social media such as...
by admin | Nov 8, 2018 | Uncategorized
Spotify is a popular music streaming service so it would not seem unusual for someone to receive an email from Spotify which is why identity thieves and scammers are sending out phony phishing emails that appear to come from Spotify. The email appears to be a...
by admin | Nov 8, 2018 | Uncategorized
I first reported to you about a massive data breach at Uber in a Scam of the day in November of 2017. Unfortunately, the data breach had actually occurred in 2016 and Uber did not disclose that it had suffered the data breach until 2017. Personal information including...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Nov 6, 2018 | Uncategorized
Next week we will celebrate Veterans’ Day, a day we set aside to honor those who have served our country and to whom all Americans owe a debt of gratitude. However, for scam artists, Veterans’ Day is just another opportunity to take advantage of the best...
