by admin | Mar 9, 2017 | Scam of the day, Site Related
The jury duty scam is a scam that has been used effectively for years by scammers to con people out of their money. The scam starts with a telephone call that you receive purportedly from a law enforcement officer informing you that you have failed to appear for jury...
by admin | Oct 20, 2015 | Scam of the day, Site Related
A week ago in the October 13th Scam of the day I informed you about the hacking of Dow Jones & Co., the publisher of The Wall Street Journal, MarketWatch and Barron’s. This data breach went all the way back to August of 2012 but was not identified until July...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Mar 13, 2013 | Scam of the day, Site Related
The words Spring Break conjure up images of young college students on beaches and would not seem to be much of a match with grandparents, but for scammers, they are a match made in heaven or perhaps hell. Many of you are familiar with the grandparent scam where a...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Aug 16, 2012 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Political candidates derive much of their strategy from the information they obtain from telephone surveys so it is not surprising that you may receive a telephone call from a company taking a survey on behalf of a particular candidate. Even if you are on the federal...
