by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Aug 10, 2021 | Scam of the day
Working in the world of scams, identity theft and cybersecurity, I have become a bit paranoid, but we all should remember that even paranoids have enemies. As cellphones have become pretty much universal, they have moved into the realm of being used as an identifier...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Mar 19, 2021 | Scam of the day
In July of 2020 I first reported to you about the hacking of Twitter accounts belonging to many prominent people including Joe Biden, Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Kanye West, Kim Kardashian, Warren Buffet, Jeff Bezos and Mike Bloomberg along with company Twitter accounts of...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Mar 3, 2021 | Scam of the day
In July of 2020 I first reported to you about the hacking of Twitter accounts belonging to many prominent people including Joe Biden, Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Kanye West, Kim Kardashian, Warren Buffet, Jeff Bezos and Mike Bloomberg along with company Twitter accounts of...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Feb 19, 2021 | Scam of the day
Cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin have been in the news a lot lately due to significant rises in the value of a number of different cryptocurrencies. However, they were also newsworthy due to a prominent story last month about a Bitcoin owner, Stefan Thomas who had...
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...
