by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Aug 19, 2025 | Scam of the day
Deepfake porn by which someone is able to use deepfake software to take the photo of someone they know or a celebrity to create what appear to be nude photos or videos of the unwary victim has been a problem for a few years as the technology becomes easier to use and...
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. | Sep 16, 2020 | Scam of the day
Pornography websites are among the most widely searched websites on the Internet and this fact is not lost on a hacking group called Malsmoke who have recently managed to install malware on many of those websites. The malware is imbedded in malicious ads then when...