by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Apr 6, 2019 | Scam of the day
Kwamaine Jerell Ford pleaded guilty last week in Federal Court in Atlanta to charges related to his hacking into the accounts of hundreds of prominent professional athletes and rappers. The technique Ford used to hack into the accounts of his victims was simple and...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Mar 27, 2019 | Scam of the day
Today’s Scam of the day comes from my own email where today I received an email from someone whom I don’t know or recognize. The email came with the subject line indicating the name of the person purportedly sending the email and the words “shared...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Feb 8, 2019 | Scam of the day
Recently there has been a dramatic increase in the stealing of frequent flier miles from the accounts of unsuspecting airline customers who participate in the various airline frequent flier programs. The reasons for this is because this kind of theft is easy to...
by admin | Apr 3, 2018 | Scam of the day
High end retailers Saks Fifth Avenue and Lord & Taylor are acknowledging that they were the victim of a data breach going back to May of 2017 discovered on March 28, 2017 in which as many as five million credit cards and debit cards used at locations of these...
by admin | Mar 18, 2018 | Scam of the day
Last Friday, 25 year old Christopher Lamb was arrested on charges related to hacking into the phones, social media accounts and cloud accounts of 20 women including a number of juveniles. According to Connecticut State Police, Lamb stole embarrassing photos from his...
