by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jan 12, 2025 | Scam of the day
PowerSchool a major education technology software company used by 16,000 educational institutions with 50 million students recently announced that it had suffered a data breach that compromised the names, addresses, Social Security numbers and medical information of...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Sep 29, 2023 | Scam of the day
In 2015 the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) settled a lawsuit it initiated against identity theft protection company, Lifelock about which I reported to you in a Scam of the day earlier that year. In the lawsuit, Lifelock was accused of not living up to the terms of...
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. | Aug 16, 2022 | Scam of the day
Identity theft is the number one consumer fraud in America at a cost of billions of dollars to victims of the crime. Identity theft occurs when someone is able to steal your identity and access your assets or use your identity to make purchases, take out loans or...
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...
