by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jun 11, 2022 | Scam of the day
For many years Medicare used a person’s Social Security number as his or her Medicare number which put Medicare recipients in serious danger of identity theft, Medicare resisted changing the Medicare number to a safer random number for many years. Finally, in...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jan 4, 2022 | Scam of the day
Broward Health, a network of more than thirty health care facilities has just disclosed that it suffered a massive data breach in which sensitive personal information including Social Security numbers, patient medial history and bank account information of more than...
by admin | May 24, 2018 | Scam of the day
Who wouldn’t want something valuable for free? No one, which is why the free health screenings that you often see at fairs, malls and community centers are so popular. Eye tests, stroke screening, cholesterol screening and blood pressure measurements are just a...
by admin | Jun 20, 2017 | Scam of the day, Site Related
On June 5th I reported to you about the data breach at a Lithuanian cosmetic surgery clinic and now we have learned about a similar, but significantly different data breach suffered by prominent Beverly Hills plastic surgeon Dr. Zain Kadri whose patients include...
by admin | Sep 7, 2016 | Scam of the day, Site Related
The IRS is certainly aware of the serious problems posed by identity theft which costs taxpayers billions of dollars in phony refunds paid to identity thieves filing income tax returns with fake W-2s in order to obtain fraudulent refunds. This makes it more startling...
