by admin | Oct 18, 2015 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Phishing is the name for the scam where an identity thief lures you through a phony email that purports to be from a legitimate source such as your bank, a company with which you do business or even the IRS or some other governmental agency to a phony website that...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Mar 5, 2013 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Recently, I received another email purporting to be from PayPal requesting information in order to resolve and undisclosed “issue” with my account. The email goes on to provide a link to click on to go to the proper place to provide the information...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Feb 1, 2013 | Scam of the day, Site Related
It has only been a few days since I warned you about the latest PayPal scam, but today I must warn you about yet another PayPal scam. If you are wondering why there are so many PayPal scams, it is for the same reason that the bank robber robbed banks – because...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jan 24, 2013 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Once again, today’s “scam of the day” come right from my own email box. I have copied it below. As you can see, it looks pretty authentic except for the fact that it is addressed to “Dear valued PayPal member” rather than being directly...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jan 7, 2013 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Phishing is the name of the scam whereby you are lured to a phony website that appears to be legitimate, however when you click on links in these phony websites, download material from these websites or provide information to these websites, you put yourself in danger...