by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Nov 22, 2020 | Scam of the day
People in Ohio have reported receiving an offical looking email that appears to come from the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services in which people are lured into clicking on links purportedly for information about applying for Pandmic Unemployment Assistance...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Nov 6, 2020 | 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. | Oct 17, 2020 | Scam of the day
Bookseller Barnes & Noble announced that it had suffered a data breach which it only recently discovered. Fortunately, customers’ credit card information appears not to have been compromised in the data breach, however, some personal information including...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Oct 8, 2020 | Scam of the day
It you are like me, you probably are receiving a lot of emails that you don’t wish to read and which merely clutter your inbox. An easy way to reduce the amount of emails you receive is to merely click on the Unsubscribe tab in newsletters and other...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Sep 23, 2020 | Scam of the day
I have been warning you about the dangers of ransomware for five years, but today’s ransomware story involves the first reported incident where a ransomware attack has actually resulted in a fatality. A hospital in Germany was forced to turn away patients...
