by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Feb 27, 2021 | Scam of the day
Recently the New York Attorney General announced a grant of $800,000 to a program to help protect homeowners from a variety of scams threatening them including deed fraud. Deed fraud, which is also referred to as “property title theft” occurs when a...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Feb 26, 2021 | Scam of the day
For a long time I have warned you that the popularity of Netflix, particularly during the Coronavirus pandemic, makes it a preferred subject for phishing emails and phishing text messages, which are referred to as smishing. Smishing is the name given to text...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Feb 25, 2021 | Scam of the day
Google recently released a new study that it did in conjunction with researchers at Stanford University in which it studied more than a billion malicious emails targeting gmail users. The study has a number of interesting points that can help us all protect ourselves...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Feb 24, 2021 | Scam of the day
Clubhouse is a social networking app used by millions of people, including Tesla founder Elon Muska and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, providing chat rooms to discuss a wide variety of topics. Unlike some other social media, Clubhouse only involves audio with no text,...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Feb 23, 2021 | Scam of the day
While the rate of infections have recently gone down somewhat, the Coronavirus continues to ravage the United States, where fatalities have reached 500,000, as well as the rest of the world. Fortunately, vaccinations are happening although getting an appointment for...
