by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jul 9, 2012 | Scam of the day, Site Related
The FBI as well as Canadian law enforcement agencies are reporting an upsurge in an extortion type of malware that is unwittingly downloaded by victims on their computers through standard phishing tactics. Once the malware is installed, the computer freezes and a...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jul 6, 2012 | Scam of the day, Site Related
In November of 2011, the FBI broke up a botnet scam by which seven Eastern European scammers since 2007 had turned more than 500,000 computers worldwide into a botnet of malware infected computers that redirected the victims’ web browsers to sites designated by...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jun 29, 2012 | Scam of the day, Site Related
The late Johnny Carson used to host a television show entitled Who Do You Trust?” If there are any English teachers reading this, they know it should have been “Whom Do You Trust,” but why quibble? I bring up this trip down memory lane because if...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | May 31, 2012 | Scam of the day, Site Related
The FBI has just issued a warning about a particular type of malware attack originating from Russia and the Ukraine. Through phishing or some other technique, the victim is lured into downloading malware at which point a pop up warning comes up which appears to be...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | May 14, 2012 | Scam of the day, Site Related
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is one of our more trusted institutions of government so people usually trust what they are told by FBI agents. Unfortunately, too many people also trust what they are told by scammers who are merely impersonating FBI...
