by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Feb 19, 2019 | Scam of the day
Identity theft is a serious crime that can result in financial harm and tremendous disruption of the lives of its victims. In 2007 the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) enacted regulations called the Red Flags Rule and the Card Issuers Rule that required banks, credit...
by admin | Sep 4, 2018 | Scam of the day
Just about everyone does some or all of their banking and bill paying through their computers online and more and more people are using their smartphones and other mobile devices to do their banking and bill paying. According to security researchers at Kaspersky Lab,...
by admin | Apr 22, 2018 | Scam of the day
Sometimes it appears that there is a “day” for just about everything. For instance, May 3rd is National Bumpy Rug Day. Although it is a little late, I would like to wish you a happy National Password Day which was on March 15th. We all have many devices...
by admin | Apr 1, 2018 | Scam of the day
Under Armour, the company which makes the MyFitnessPal diet and fitness app that works with Fitbits and Garmin devices recently announced that it had suffered a data breach in February which resulted in information from 150 million accounts being stolen. The good news...
by admin | Feb 28, 2018 | Scam of the day
I have been reporting to you about PayPal scams for many years and there is a good reason for that. PayPal is a popular payment service used by many people particularly with eBay. Anything popular with the public is popular with scammers. Recently a new PayPal scam...
