by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Sep 20, 2022 | Scam of the day
In the past I have told you about scammers increasingly setting up phony websites that appear to be for customer service or tech support of many of the companies with which we do business. Often they either purchase an ad to appear at the top of a search engine...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Sep 19, 2022 | Scam of the day
Even if everyone doesn’t use them, we are all pretty much familiar with QR Codes such as the one shown below. The Quick Response (QR) code is a two dimensional barcode that can be scanned and read by your cellphone. They have been around since 1994 and like a...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Sep 18, 2022 | Scam of the day
Today’s Scam of the day is about a phishing email presently circulating that attempts to lure you into clicking on a link in order to continue using your email account from an undescribed email server. I have written in the past of similar phishing emails...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Sep 17, 2022 | Scam of the day
I first told you about “brushing” in August of 2020 after many people in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom reported receiving unordered packages of seeds sent from China. A wide variety of conspiracy theories quickly surfaced to explain...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Sep 16, 2022 | Scam of the day
Impostor scams have long been among the most lucrative for scammers. While there are many variations of this scam, the most common variations have involved scammers calling their intended victims on the telephone posing as some governmental agency such as the IRS or...
