by admin | Jul 18, 2015 | Scam of the day, Site Related
It is not surprising that scam artists are the only criminals that we refer to as artists. Some of their scams are truly ingenious. Today’s scam starts when you receive a text message from Google with a verification code. Immediately thereafter and before you...
by admin | Mar 26, 2015 | Scam of the day, Site Related
As we all know by now, the Nigerian letter scam is the name for a type of scam in which you are told that under some pretense you are to receive a huge amount of money for doing next to nothing. Of course, once you correspond with the sender of the email, you soon...
by admin | Nov 6, 2014 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Smishing is the name given to text messages that lure you into clicking on links or providing personal information in response to a text message from what appears to be a trusted source, such as a company with which you do business, such as your bank. Recently there...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Sep 1, 2014 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Although so much of our attention is focused on scams perpetrated on the Internet and through means of high technology, a recent survey confirmed that low technology, namely the telephone still is fertile ground for many scams. According to the Truecaller/Harris...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Aug 30, 2014 | Scam of the day, Site Related
As I have told you so many times, whenever something catches the attention of the public, it catches the attention of scammers and identity thieves who use it as a hook to turn that public’s interest in something into making the public victims of scams. The...
