by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Dec 22, 2024 | Scam of the day
Data breaches are all too common and according to a 2023 report by IBM, healthcare companies account for approximately 27% of all data breaches. Healthcare companies are targeted for a number of reasons including the general lack of security of many healthcare...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Dec 21, 2024 | Scam of the day
Scammers love to take over Facebook accounts because people generally trust the posts put up by their friends that appear on their Facebook page. These people forget my motto of “trust me, you can’t trust anyone” and often click on links in these...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Dec 19, 2024 | Scam of the day
Today’s Scam of the day is one I first warned you about in the Scam of the day for March 3, 2023, but it is still being effectively used by scammers. I have warned you numerous times about scams in which you receive a phony invoice that appears to come from a...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Dec 14, 2024 | Scam of the day
The 40+ dating website Senior Dating has shut down after recently suffering a data breach on November 23rd. The compromised and stolen personal information of 765,517 of the apps users included biographies, birth dates, drinking habits, education levels, email...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Dec 8, 2024 | Scam of the day
I have been warning you about job scams for twelve years. These scams appear in many platforms including social media, emails, and even on legitimate online employment websites. In a recent version of the job scam, scammers are texting people posing as recruiters for...