by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jan 31, 2020 | Scam of the day
The Super Bowl, which will be played tomorrow in Miami between the Kansas City Chiefs and the San Francisco 49ers promises to be a hugely popular event with an estimated viewing audience of well more than a hundred million people. Following the game, many people...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jan 30, 2020 | Scam of the day
As was made abundantly clear by 2017’s massive Wannacry ransomware attack that exploited a vulnerability in the Microsoft Windows operating system for which Microsoft had already issued a security update and the massive Equifax data breach that also occurred as...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jan 29, 2020 | Scam of the day
February third is the start of Tax Identity Theft Awareness Week. Income tax identity theft, by which identity thieves file phony income tax returns with counterfeit W-2s using the Social Security number and name of their victims is still a major problem for the IRS...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jan 28, 2020 | Scam of the day
Scams involving utility bills for electric, water or gas services have long been popular with scammers. I recently received an email from a Florida Scamicide reader who received a phone call on her answering machine that indicated it was from Florida Power &...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jan 27, 2020 | Scam of the day
Anything that is currently in the news or popular with the public is fodder for scam artists, the only criminals we refer to as artists. As I mentioned in the January 22, 2020 Scam of the day, the United States Census Bureau is conducting a national census as it is...
