by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jan 11, 2014 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Although, America Online (AOL) has decreased in popularity somewhat in recent years, about 2.5 million people still use it and with numbers that high, AOL users are a large target for scammers and identity thieves. A recent scam that has surfaced is an email that...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jan 7, 2014 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Phishing scams often take the form of emails that you receive that appear to be legitimate and require you to click on a link contained in the email for various reasons which also may appear legitimate. However, in the case of phishing emails, if you click on the...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jan 18, 2013 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Fresh from my email comes today’s “Scam of the day” which is copied below. It is a phony notice from an identity thief posing as an AOL representative that attempts to lure me into clicking on a link which it requires me to do in order remedy an...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Oct 10, 2012 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Recently reports have surfaced about a new scam involving Yahoo. It starts when you receive an email purportedly from Yahoo that tell you that Yahoo has identified a breach of your email account and that someone has tried to get access to your account (which actually...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Oct 4, 2012 | Site Related
Once again my own email provided me with another “scam of the day.” I got an email message which purported to be from my email provider indicating that someone had tried to sign in on my email account from another location. The email then told me to...
