by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Dec 21, 2025 | Scam of the day
Pornhub, the most visited Internet pornography site has notified 200 million of its premium users that it had suffered a data breach in which personal data including email addresses, location, video titles and search keywords used by its premium users was...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Dec 20, 2025 | Scam of the day
The holiday season is always a busy one for air travel and we can expect delays and cancellations due to a variety of reasons. Unfortunately, scammers will be taking advantage of the situation. Delays and cancellations occur for a number of reasons including bad...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Dec 19, 2025 | Scam of the day
A report from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) indicates a 1,000 % increase in money lost to scammers through cryptocurrency ATMs in the last three years. Cryptocurrency ATMs look just like traditional ATMs, but instead of distributing cash, they take cash in...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Dec 18, 2025 | Scam of the day
During the holiday season many people will be traveling and staying at hotels. Scammers know this and target hotel customers for scams. Some scams are just so simple and effective that they remind us why scam artists are indeed the only criminals we refer to as...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Dec 17, 2025 | Scam of the day
Google filed a lawsuit in federal court this week against a Chinese criminal gang known as Darcula (which is not a Chinese word and may or may not be a criminal’s misspelling of Dracula). Darcula developed software that could be used to send phishing text...
