by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Mar 21, 2025 | Scam of the day
The Denver Field Office of the FBI has issued a warning about free online converter tools. Converter tools enable you to change files from one format to another such as converting a Word document to a PDF, image formats such as a JPEG to a PNG, audio files such a an...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Mar 20, 2025 | Scam of the day
Some of you may have thought that Zeus was just a mythical figure, but, in fact, Zeus is very much alive and represents a real threat to your fiscal well-being. Zeus is the name of a particular type of malware, also known as Zbot, that has been around since at least...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Mar 19, 2025 | Scam of the day
Imposter scams have long been among the most lucrative for scammers. While there are many variations of this scam, the most common variations have involved scammers emailing their victims posing as a popular company with which we all do business or calling their...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Feb 6, 2025 | Scam of the day
People are reporting receiving calls that purport to be from Apple’s Special Investigations Unit telling them that illegal child pornography has been discovered on their cloud account. The phony investigator is sympathetic when you inform them that you never...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Feb 3, 2025 | Scam of the day
DocuSign is a company that provides technology for the transmission of contracts and other documents with features for electronic signatures and is used by many businesses. There has been an increasing number of scams in which phony DocuSign messages are being used...