by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jun 10, 2025 | Scam of the day
A credit freeze is, as the name implies, a freezing of your credit report at your request whereby no one can have access to your credit report even if they have your Social Security number and other personal information about you. You control access to the credit...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Nov 14, 2023 | Scam of the day
McLaren Health Care, a Michigan based hospital chain consisting of thirteen hospitals in Michigan and Indiana last week disclosed that it was a victim of a data breach that began on July 28th and lasted through the month of August. The company became aware of the...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Aug 17, 2022 | Scam of the day
What’s in someone else’s wallet may not be Capital One’s advertising slogan, but it may describe your personal information following the 2019 disclosure of a major data breach at Capital One affecting more than 100 million of its American customers...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Mar 20, 2022 | Scam of the day
Last summer I reported to you about a data breach at T-Mobile in which personal information of 54.6 million customers, former customers and prospective customers was stolen. The compromised information includes names, phone numbers, Social Security numbers and...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Mar 17, 2022 | Scam of the day
Recently a Scamicide reader told me that she had received an email from a friend of hers asking for a favor. Her friend needed the Scamicide reader to send a gift card to someone because her friend was unable to do so and needed to send the gift card right away. The...
