by Steven Weisman, Esq. | May 28, 2013 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Just as the band, Dire Straits sang about “money for nothing and chicks for free,” many scammers appeal to our desire of something for nothing by offering free phony on-line coupons for products or services in the hope that we will fall for their promises...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | May 19, 2013 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Phishing, as I have described on Scamicide and in my book “50 Ways to Protect Your Identity in a Digital Age” is the name for the tactic used by identity thieves by which you are lured to a phony website to provide information used to make you a victim of...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Apr 26, 2013 | Scam of the day, Site Related
I make it a practice to constantly keep you advised about the latest security patches issued by computer software companies. Identity thieves and scammers are constantly discovering and exploiting vulnerabilities in the software that we all use in order to make us...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Apr 22, 2013 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Computer hackers are constantly exploiting vulnerabilities in software to attack your computer and steal information from it that can make you a victim of identity theft. The dirty little secret is that computer security software is not very effective against the...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Apr 20, 2013 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Bluetooth technology has proven to be a boon to hands-free use of our smart phones. Often this technology is used to pair up the smart phone with a car’s technology system, such as the widely used Sync system in Ford vehicles. But just as this technology can...
