by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jan 27, 2019 | Scam of the day
For a couple of years, people have been receiving extortion emails in which the intended victim is told that his or her computer and web cam have been hacked and that the scammers have video of you watching porn online. They threaten to send the videos to people on...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jan 25, 2019 | Scam of the day
The Social Security Administration is again warning people about scammers calling on the phone under a variety of pretexts and asking for the Social Security numbers of the people they call. In the hands of an identity thief, it is very simple matter for a criminal...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jan 24, 2019 | Scam of the day
PayPal is a popular payment service used successfully by many people particularly when making purchases through eBay. However, because it is so popular with the public, it is also popular with scammers who will fashion PayPal related phishing emails that appear to...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jan 24, 2019 | Scam of the day
More than forty-two million Americans have student loans with an outstanding balance of more than 1.4 trillion dollars so it is no surprise that scammers are focusing their attention on these students and former students through scams that falsely promise to provide...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jan 22, 2019 | Scam of the day
Many of us are said to have data breach fatigue, which means that due to so many massive data breaches occurring in recent years, such as the Equifax data breach of 2017 in which 145 million people had personal information stolen, we have become numbed failed to...
