by Steven Weisman, Esq. | May 24, 2013 | Scam of the day, Site Related
As we enter the Memorial Day weekend, it is a good time to honor and remember all our veterans and active duty members of the military as well as thank them for their service. Unfortunately, not everyone feels this way and scam artists look upon veterans as well as...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Mar 18, 2013 | Scam of the day, Site Related
The FBI recently announced that identity thief Lawrence Fudge was convicted and sentenced for running an identity theft ring in Philadelphia for at least six years before being caught. Fudge obtained personal information from rogue employees he bribed in banks and...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Nov 9, 2012 | Scam of the day, Site Related
A credit freeze is, as the name implies, a freezing of your credit report at your request whereby no one can have access to your credit report even if they have your Social Security number and other personal information about you. You control access to the credit...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Apr 25, 2012 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Not even the dead are immune from identity theft and this particular type of identity theft is now on the rise. One way this occurs is when scammers merely check out the latest obituaries and then go to a free totally available data bank called the Death Master File...