by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Apr 19, 2025 | Scam of the day
Phishing emails, by which scammers and identity thieves attempt to lure you into either clicking on links contained within the email which download malware or providing personal information that will be used to make you a victim of identity theft, are nothing new. ...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Mar 11, 2025 | Scam of the day
I have often written about imporster scams where scammers pose as legitimate companies or government agencies that you know and trust in an effort to lure you into providing personal information or making a payment under some pretext. Now, in an unusual twist on the...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Dec 14, 2024 | Scam of the day
The 40+ dating website Senior Dating has shut down after recently suffering a data breach on November 23rd. The compromised and stolen personal information of 765,517 of the apps users included biographies, birth dates, drinking habits, education levels, email...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Sep 29, 2024 | Scam of the day
October 8th and 9th are Amazon Prime Day which is odd to say. Amazon really should change the name for the two day event to Amazon Prime Days. Amazon Prime Day is a global promotion of Amazon featuring sales on a variety of items available solely to Amazon Prime...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jan 6, 2024 | Scam of the day
In the Scam of the day for October 10, 2023 I told you that the genetic testing company 23andMe had suffered a data breach that compromised genetic and ancestry data of 6.9 million of its users and the apparent hackers had already offered for sale what they say is the...
