by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Sep 25, 2025 | Scam of the day
Cameron Martinas Curry and Quavaun Enreco Rhodes of Georgia were recently convicted of stealing mail from collection boxes in the Augusta, Georgia area and altering checks that had been mailed to have the money paid to them. Criminals around the country are...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Aug 2, 2025 | Scam of the day
I have written numerous times in the past about the theft of frequent flier miles from the accounts of unwary customers. Recently there has been a dramatic increase in the stealing of frequent flier miles from the accounts of unsuspecting airline customers who...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jun 28, 2025 | Scam of the day
Bitdefender is a trusted cybersecurity and anti-virus software company that provides a variety of products to protect your computer and digital devices from malware and other online threats which is why it is particularly disturbing when scammers were recently...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jun 9, 2025 | Scam of the day
In the Scam of the day for June 14, 2023 I told you that health insurance company Harvard Pilgrim disclosed that it had suffered a major data breach and ransomware attack affecting more than 2.5 million people. This particular data breach is quite serious because...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jun 5, 2025 | Scam of the day
In the Scam of the day for October 10, 2023 I told you that the genetic testing company 23andMe had suffered a data breach that compromised genetic and ancestry data of 6.9 million of its users and the apparent hackers had already offered for sale what they say is the...
