by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Dec 31, 2018 | Scam of the day, Uncategorized
Last Fall, I warned you about scams involving the SAT and PSAT exams administered by the College Board. Fall is a time of the year when high school students who are anticipating attending college in the future will take the PSAT test and later the SAT test. The PSAT...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Dec 30, 2018 | Scam of the day, Uncategorized
Tonight is New Year’s Eve and many people are looking for that perfect person to be their date for the evening’s events. Looking for love and romance are basic human drives and scammers take advantage of this with numerous romance scams. Most of these...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Dec 29, 2018 | Scam of the day, Uncategorized
Reports are circulating of a new gift card scam that starts when you receive an email that appears to come from either Amazon or Apple informing you that an anonymous friend of yours has purchased a gift card at one of these companies as a gift for you and that all...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Dec 29, 2018 | Scam of the day, Uncategorized
Atrium Health, which operates 44 hospitals in North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia suffered a data breach between September 22 and September 29, 2018 which has just been discovered. The data breach resulted in significant amount of personal information of 2.65...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Dec 27, 2018 | Scam of the day, Uncategorized
Recently a Houston family was terrified when they heard vulgar threats coming from the baby monitor they used to watch their four month old son. Their baby monitor had been hacked by someone attempting to scare them. While the hacker did not pose a physical threat to...