by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jul 31, 2022 | Scam of the day
Data breaches continue to a major problem for all of us. Regardless of how well you protect the security of your personal information on your own computers and devices, you are only as safe as the places that hold your information with the weakest security. In just...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jul 30, 2022 | Scam of the day
I first reported to you about a massive data breach at Uber in a Scam of the day in November of 2017. Unfortunately, the data breach had actually occurred in 2016 and Uber did not disclose that it had suffered the data breach until 2017. Personal information including...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jul 29, 2022 | Scam of the day
Federal law enforcement recently arrested Fola Alabi accusing him of conducting a romance scam in which he scammed women, most of whom were between 70 and 80 years old and widowed or divorced out of approximately a million dollars According to the criminal complaint...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jul 28, 2022 | Scam of the day
In the summer of 2021 I reported to you about a data breach at T-Mobile in which personal information of 54.6 million customers, former customers and prospective customers was stolen. The compromised information includes names, phone numbers, Social Security numbers...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jul 27, 2022 | Scam of the day
She’s back! I have been writing about scams related to Mavis Wanczyk for five years but recently I have received many emails from Scamicide readers telling me about various new incarnations of a variety of scams that share the same hook which is that Mavis...
