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. | May 29, 2012 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Facebook users are always targeted by scammers because there are so many of them. The latest Facebook scam occurs when you receive an email telling you that your Facebook account has been canceled and that you need to click on a link to either confirm or cancel the...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | May 14, 2012 | Scam of the day, Site Related
The Federal Trade Commission has just won a major lawsuit against infomercial marketers of real estate investment scams that stole money from a million victims who fell for the informercials misleading misinformation as to how they could become rich through real...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | May 11, 2012 | Scam of the day, Site Related
The FBI has just issued a warning to people traveling out of the country about malware being secretly installed on the laptop computers of people staying at hotels offering Internet connections in their hotel rooms. The installation of the malware, which has included...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Apr 26, 2012 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Craigslist can provide an easy opportunity for someone to legitimately and economically do business. Unfortunately, it also can provide an easy opportunity for scam artists. The latest scam involving Craigslist around the country occcurs when a scammer takes the...
