by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jul 17, 2024 | Scam of the day
More than forty-two million Americans have student loans with an outstanding balance of more than 1.4 trillion dollars so it is no surprise that scammers are focusing their attention on these students and former students through scams that falsely promise to provide...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jul 16, 2024 | Scam of the day
Although I have been writing about synthetic identity theft for many years, many people are not familiar with the term “synthetic Identity theft.” Synthetic identity theft poses a significant threat to many people particularly children. Synthetic...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jul 15, 2024 | Scam of the day
Recently there have been an increase in scams involving scammers convincing their victims that they are eligible for large government grants if they merely pay a processing fee. The federal government does not charge fees for applying for grants. Additionally, the...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jul 14, 2024 | Scam of the day
In a required regulatory filing AT&T recently disclosed that it had suffered a significant data breach affecting pretty much all of its 109 million customers. The data breach was not of AT&T’s computers, but rather of the cloud data provider Snowflake...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jul 13, 2024 | Scam of the day
July 16th and 17th are Amazon Prime Day which is odd to say. Amazon really should change the name for the two day event to Amazon Prime Days. Amazon Prime Day is a global promotion of Amazon featuring sales on a variety of items available solely to Amazon Prime...
