by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jul 16, 2012 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Some scams keep repeating and with good reason – they work. Jury duty scams have been with us for many years and they continue to be an effective scam. They start when you receive a telephone call or a text message informing you that you have failed to report...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jul 14, 2012 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Data breaches such as occurred this week with Yahoo, which shockingly did not even encrypt the data of its users often lead to even more scams through the use of the email addresses of the hacked individuals to send out phishing emails to unsuspecting victims who see...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jul 13, 2012 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Data breaches are a fact of modern digital life. This week hundreds of thousands of Yahoo users had their usernames and passwords stolen from one of their databases and just within the past month social network sites Formspring and LinkedIn had their databases hacked...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jul 3, 2012 | Scam of the day, Site Related
With the recent damage caused by Tropical Storm Debbie and the Colorado wildfires, you can expect to see scammers following in the wake of these disasters with scams to further victimize the people who have been harmed by these natural disasters. Some scams will be...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | May 24, 2012 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Income tax season has hardly ended, but a whole new wave of income tax related scams have surfaced according to a recent warning from the IRS. People are being contacted in a variety of ways including emails, phone calls and faxes from people purporting to be IRS...
