by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Apr 14, 2026 | Scam of the day
Scams involving the popular travel website Booking.com have increased dramatically over the last two years worldwide. The latest problem is a data breach which Booking.com confirmed earlier this week in an email to its users informing them that it had suffered a data...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Apr 13, 2026 | Scam of the day
Since 2017 I have been warning you about scammers planting phony customer service numbers online and using those numbers to trick their victims into providing personal information or paying them money. Scammers construct phony websites that appear to provide a...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Apr 12, 2026 | Scam of the day
In August of 2024, the rental car company Avis suffered a data breach in which personal and financial information of 299,000 of its customers was compromised. The compromised information included names, mailing addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, birth dates,...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Apr 11, 2026 | Scam of the day
Apple Pay is a very safe, secure and convenient way to make payments, but nothing is fool proof. Never underestimate the power of a fool. While Apple Pay uses biometric recognition and tokenization that hides your affiliated credit number scammers are able to use...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Apr 10, 2026 | Scam of the day
Scammers are always taking advantage of what is going on in the news to use it as a hook for scams and the war in Iran is no exception. A number of Iran war scams have begun to proliferate and as with many scams, they use emotional appeals to lure people into being...
