by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Feb 11, 2025 | Scam of the day
The Barnstable Massachusetts Police Department recently issued a warning about a new text message scam in which the scammers pose as Amazon. Recently there has been an increase in the number of people receiving phony text messages that purport to be sent from Amazon...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Feb 4, 2025 | Scam of the day
For many people, working from home at a simple job that pays well is pretty attractive, which may explain why people are vulnerable to a scam offering to pay you to be a product tester for Amazon. Ads for Amazon product tester are found on social media such as...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Sep 7, 2024 | Scam of the day
I first told you about “brushing” in August of 2020 after many people in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom reported receiving unordered packages of seeds sent from China. A wide variety of conspiracy theories quickly surfaced to explain...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Apr 12, 2014 | Scam of the day, Site Related
By now everyone is aware of the Heartbleed security flaw in the Open SSL security technology that has been used by two-thirds of the world’s websites to encrypt communications between computer users and these websites. Where until recently we were under the...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Apr 10, 2014 | Scam of the day, Site Related
The term “Heartbleed” sounds serious and it is. Heartbleed is the name of the recently discovered security flaw in the Open SSL encryption security technology that is used by up to 2/3 of websites on the Internet. An indication that the website you are...
