by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Feb 14, 2021 | Scam of the day
A week ago in my Scam of the day for February 8th, I wrote about why it was unwise for people to post photos of their vaccination cards on social media because it would let the world know their birhdate. Your birthdate is a signficiant piece of information that, in...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Feb 9, 2021 | Scam of the day
SIM card swapping is a major problem. A Subscriber Identity Module, more commonly known as a SIM card, is an integrated circuit that stores information used to authenticate subscribers on mobile devices, such as a cell phone. The SIM card is able to be transferred...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jan 5, 2020 | Scam of the day
Last week hackers took over the Twitter account of singer Mariah Carey and sent out sexually explicit messages to her 21.4 million followers that appeared to come from Carey. After several hours her Twitter account was secured. I reported to you in September...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Sep 2, 2019 | Scam of the day
Last week, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s own Twitter account was hacked. The hacker posted numerous racist tweets. It obviously is shocking when the CEO of Twitter has his account hacked. I have reported to you in the past about numerous celebrities whose Twitter...
