by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jul 31, 2019 | Scam of the day
It was just a few days ago that I told you about the Equifax settlement of claims brought by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and all but two of the states’ Attorneys General related to the avoidable 2017 data...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jul 30, 2019 | Scam of the day
What’s in someone else’s wallet may not be Capital One’s advertising slogan, but it may describe your personal information following the disclosure of a major data breach at Capital One affecting more than 100 million of its American customers and 6...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jul 29, 2019 | Scam of the day
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in conjunction with the Attorney General of Ohio has brought legal action against Educare Centre Services, Inc. and Tripletel, Inc alleging that these companies worked together to sell bogus credit card interest rate reduction...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jul 28, 2019 | Scam of the day
There has been a lot of reporting in the media about the major Equifax settlement of claims brought by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and all but two of the states’ Attorneys General related to the avoidable...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jul 28, 2019 | Scam of the day
I have been warning you for a couple of year about extortion emails in which the intended victim is told in the email that his computer and web cam have been hacked and that the scammers have video of him watching porn online. They threaten to send the videos to...