by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Apr 24, 2019 | Scam of the day
The technology behind the chip credit card was intended to eliminate much of the credit card and debt card fraud that was formerly easy to accomplish with the older magnetic strip credit and debit cards which contained all of the account information on the magnetic...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Dec 5, 2018 | Scam of the day, Uncategorized
Today’s Scam of the day is one about which I wrote five years ago, but I have received reports that this scam is still being perpetrated so I thought I would warn you about it again. It is a particularly clever scam. It starts when you receive a call from a...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Nov 22, 2018 | Uncategorized
Today is Black Friday, which traditionally is one of the biggest shopping days of the year. This fact is not lost on scammers who will be as pervasive as ever. Over the next few weeks, I will be focusing the Scams of the day on the many holiday season scams about...
by admin | May 15, 2018 | Scam of the day
Tex-Mex restaurant chain Chili’s announced this past weekend that it had suffered a data breach affecting an, as yet, undetermined number of its 1,600 restaurants. According to Chili’s, credit card and debit card information as well as the names of these...
by admin | Apr 8, 2018 | Scam of the day
It seems like every week I am reporting to you about another data breach and the latest is the trifecta of Delta Airlines, Sears and Best Buy, all of which have announced that they suffered a data breach affecting customer payment information including credit cards...
