by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Mar 21, 2025 | Scam of the day
The Denver Field Office of the FBI has issued a warning about free online converter tools. Converter tools enable you to change files from one format to another such as converting a Word document to a PDF, image formats such as a JPEG to a PNG, audio files such a an...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jul 1, 2024 | Scam of the day
Malware downloaded on to your phone can cause you many problems including making you a victim of identity theft, stealing your bank account or other assets or making you a victim of a wide variety of scams. The two most common ways that malware is downloaded on to...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Dec 25, 2023 | Scam of the day
I have been warning you about romance scams for many years. More recently I have been warning you for the last few years about the myriad of scams involving cryptocurrencies. In the last few years a new scam combining the romance scam and cryptocurrency scams has...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Aug 31, 2022 | Scam of the day
Everyone likes to get things for free, but sometimes getting free software can cost you dearly. Many of you may remember the massive compute attack of the Wanna Cry virus which in May of 2017 attacked hundreds of thousands of computers operating various versions of...
by admin | Jan 2, 2017 | Scam of the day, Site Related
There seems to be a mobile app for just about anything you could possibly want to do and scammers are quite aware of this which is why the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently issued a warning to shoppers in particular about phony apps being circulated by...