by admin | Aug 1, 2017 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Discover is now offering free identity theft alert services through any of their credit cards. Discover monitors websites on the Dark Web where criminals buy and sell stolen credit cards, Social Security numbers and other identity theft information. They will then...
by admin | Jul 30, 2016 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Earlier this month the Pennsylvania Revenue Department announced that it was notifying 865 taxpayers by mail that their unencrypted personal information was contained on one of four laptop computers stolen from a car used by Pennsylvania Revenue Department auditors...
by admin | Apr 21, 2015 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Recently the Department of Homeland Security joined Interpol and the FBI to issue a serious warning about a botnet called the Simda botnet. A botnet, as readers familiar with Scamicide will know, is a network of infected computers used by cybercriminals to spread...
by admin | Mar 21, 2015 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Scammers have no sympathy for anyone as evidenced by the many scams that are based on obituaries. For years, scammers would scan the obituaries and then go to Social Security’s Death Master File where the names of deceased Americans are available along with...
by admin | Feb 27, 2015 | Scam of the day, Site Related
More and more massive data breaches have become a part of everyday life. Breaches such as recently occurred at Anthem and in the past few years affected Target, Home Depot and many other companies affect just about everyone. Sometimes the data breaches, such as...
