by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Apr 5, 2024 | Scam of the day
Earlier this week Cancer treatment and research center City of Hope disclosed that it had suffered a data breach affecting 820,000 patients whose personal information was compromised. The data breach occurred between September and October of 2023, but was only...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Apr 4, 2024 | Scam of the day
I have been warning you about scams related to Social Security benefits for many years. In one Social Security related scam, the scammers call their targeted victim on the phone posing as employees of the Social Security Administration and tell their intended victims...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Apr 3, 2024 | Scam of the day
Scams involving utility bills for electric, water or gas services have long been popular with scammers. Recently, the West coast utility company PG&E released figures indicating that they received 43,000 reports from its customers claiming they were contacted by...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Apr 2, 2024 | Scam of the day
A month ago I told you about a man in Australia who was scammed out of $22,000 through a sophisticated text message scam. It started with a text message that appeared to be an alert from his bank informing him that someone had just tried to setup a payment from his...
