by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Mar 16, 2025 | Scam of the day
The first games of March Madness start March 18th and many people in the United States will be following intently the NCAA men’s college basketball tournament. While many of these people are sports fans,merely enjoying the competition many others bet on the...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Mar 15, 2025 | Scam of the day
In 2019 and 2023 I reported to you about two massive data breaches suffered by MGM Resorts which operates twenty-one resort hotels and casinos primarily in Las Vegas, but also in other cities around the country including Springfield, Massachusetts. Following the data...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Mar 14, 2025 | Scam of the day
Data breaches are all too common and according to a 2023 report by IBM, healthcare companies account for approximately 27% of all data breaches. An analysis of the health care breach data base maintained by the Department of Health and Human Services done by Security...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Mar 13, 2025 | Scam of the day
According to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) last year more scams originated through text messages than phone calls and text message scams in which the scammers pose as your bank were the most common text message scam. Phony text messaging, called smishing, which ...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Mar 12, 2025 | Scam of the day
I have written often about phony student loan debt relief companies and with good reason. 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...
