by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Apr 5, 2021 | Scam of the day
As I have reminded you many times, we are only as safe and secure as the security as the websites that have our personal information. So even if you are extremely diligent in protecting your personal information, you can be in danger of identity theft and scams if...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jan 1, 2021 | Scam of the day
Last week Carlos Rodriguez Sr., also known as “Il Padrino” was sentenced to more than ten years in prison for his role in masterminding a nationwide countefeit check cashing identity theft scheme by which he and his cohorts stole more than 1.8 million...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | May 14, 2020 | Scam of the day
Personal information including birth date, gender, website activity, cell phone number, username, email address and hashed passwords of 3.5 million users of the dating site MobiFriends have recently been discovered to have been made available to cybercriminals on the...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jun 5, 2019 | Scam of the day
It was only a little over a week ago that I alerted you to another in a long line of Airbnb scams. Airbnb is a deservedly popular service that connects homeowners wishing to rent a room or their entire house with vacationers and other travelers in 190 countries...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jan 22, 2019 | Scam of the day
Many of us are said to have data breach fatigue, which means that due to so many massive data breaches occurring in recent years, such as the Equifax data breach of 2017 in which 145 million people had personal information stolen, we have become numbed failed to...
