by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Aug 30, 2012 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Recently, Boris Toumasian was convicted of multiple offenses involving identity theft and sentenced to federal prison for a term of five years. Toumasian, who had worked at a BP gas station, installed skimmers on the gas pumps at the gas station. For those of you...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Aug 9, 2012 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Recently, Amar Singh and his wife Neha Punjani-Singh were sentenced to prison for their role in a thirteen million dollar identity theft ring that operated in the United States with help from abroad between July and November of 2011. The Singhs were only two of a...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Aug 8, 2012 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Recently a new version of malware called Citadel has been discovered on people’s Facebook pages. The scam appears as a request for donations to a children’s charity. Presently versions of the malware have been found on Facebook pages in England, Italy,...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jul 14, 2012 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Data breaches such as occurred this week with Yahoo, which shockingly did not even encrypt the data of its users often lead to even more scams through the use of the email addresses of the hacked individuals to send out phishing emails to unsuspecting victims who see...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jun 16, 2012 | Scam of the day, Site Related
On March 31st I originally told you about the massive data breach at Global Payment, a third party credit card processing company that works with retailers as a middleman in the processing of credit card charges. In the wake of the data breach which affected holders...
