by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Aug 5, 2012 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Earlier this week the IRS acknowledged that they had paid out more than five billion dollars in fraudulent income tax refunds to identity thieves in 2011 and that a government audit of the IRS predicted that the problem will worsen over the next five years. Despite...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Aug 4, 2012 | Scam of the day, Site Related
The convenience of looking for a job online is somewhat balanced by the ease with which scammers can exploit this process to steal money from you or make you a victim of identity theft. Merely because you find a job listing on a legitimate job site, such as...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Aug 2, 2012 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Recently the Justice Department through the U.S. Attorney’s office for Alaska in cooperation with the Justice Department’s Tax Division announced a ninety count indictment against eleven people accused of filing phony income tax returns between January...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jul 19, 2012 | Scam of the day, Site Related
According to the Federal Trade Commission’s most recent survey, more than thirty million Americans were the victims of scams last year. However, the number of scams was indicated as close to 49 million scams, which means that many scam victims were victimized...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jul 18, 2012 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Curiosity killed the cat and it can also invade your computer and result in a scammer getting access to your computer through malware such as a keystroke logging program that can read and steal all of the information stored on your computer, such as your Social...
