by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jun 9, 2020 | Scam of the day
Personal information including customer names, email addresses, phone numbers, mailing addresses scrambled passwords and the last four digits of credit card numbers of 8 million users of the meal delivery service Home Chef were recently discovered to have been made...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | May 2, 2020 | Scam of the day
During the social distancing and quarantining that has become the hallmark of the Coronavirus pandemic, deliveries by UPS, Federal Express, Amazon and others have become the primary way many of us are doing all or almost all of our shopping. With so many people...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Feb 22, 2020 | Scam of the day
Recently personal information of 10,683,188 people gathered in a data breach of MGM Resorts hotels turned up on Dark Web websites where criminals buy and sell stolen data. The data included full names, home addresses, phone numbers, email addresses and dates of birth...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Feb 18, 2020 | Scam of the day
Over the years, I have written many times about the extreme danger of phishing emails or the more specifically targeted spear phishing emails. Phishing emails come from scammers who pose as companies, governmental agencies or other entities with which you do business...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Dec 6, 2019 | Scam of the day
Russians Maksim Yakubets and Igor Turashev who the Justice Department allege operated an international cybercrime organization known as Evil Corp (which sounds like it should be the villain in an Austin Powers movie) were charged yesterday with stealing 100 million...
