by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Oct 26, 2024 | Scam of the day
The phony invoice scam is a common scam popular with scammers because it is quite effective. It starts when you receive an email that purports to be from a popular company with which many of us do business that indicates that you owe them a significant payment. The...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Oct 25, 2024 | Scam of the day
Scams related to the Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) PreCheck program have substantially increased in the last few years. For those people unfamiliar with the PreCheck program, the TSA has a long standing program called TSA PreCheck which enables...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Oct 24, 2024 | Scam of the day
Celebrating Halloween has become a major event in recent years with many adults searching for elaborate costumes and of course whenever many people are interested in something, scammers appear ready to take advantage of that interest. Scammers have set up phony...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Oct 23, 2024 | Scam of the day
Scammers are contacting people through text messages that appear to come from Google in which the scammers tell their targeted victims that their Gmail account has been hacked and that they need to click on a link in the text message recover their account. Anyone...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Oct 22, 2024 | Scam of the day
In August 15th’s Scam of the day I told you about the massive data breach at National Public Data, a prominent data broker company used by other companies for background checks. Last April a cybercriminal who we now know to be Luan Goncalves who allegedly did...
