by admin | Nov 11, 2014 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Phishing, as you probably know, is the term for the tactic used by scammers and identity thieves who pose as a legitimate company, government agency or some other person or entity you trust and lure you into providing personal information that can either be used to...
by admin | Oct 17, 2014 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Dropbox is a popular service that enables you to store photos, documents and other information in the cloud. Hackers are claiming that they stole close to 7 million Dropbox usernames and passwords and have posted some of these on Black market websites offering to...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Apr 17, 2014 | Scam of the day, Site Related
New York state police are reporting the theft of a woman’s smartphone that was then used to send text messages appearing to be from the woman whose smartphone was stolen indicating that she had car problems and needed her friends to wire her money to cover...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Oct 3, 2012 | Site Related
I always share scams and identity theft schemes aimed at me because I know that if I am being targeted so are you. Recently I received an email that purported to be from my email system administrator telling me that my email mailbox had exceeded its storage limits. ...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jul 21, 2012 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Following up on the “scam of the day” of July 13th which dealt with data breaches at Yahoo, LinkedIn and others, you should be aware of a class action that has been filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California on behalf of all...
