by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jul 6, 2021 | Scam of the day
Today’s Scam of the day is about a phishing email presently circulating that attempts to lure you into clicking on a link in order to continue using your AOL account. Millions of people still use AOL. One reason is that you get greater email privacy when...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jan 7, 2013 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Phishing is the name of the scam whereby you are lured to a phony website that appears to be legitimate, however when you click on links in these phony websites, download material from these websites or provide information to these websites, you put yourself in danger...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jul 21, 2012 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Following up on the “scam of the day” of July 13th which dealt with data breaches at Yahoo, LinkedIn and others, you should be aware of a class action that has been filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California on behalf of all...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jul 14, 2012 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Data breaches such as occurred this week with Yahoo, which shockingly did not even encrypt the data of its users often lead to even more scams through the use of the email addresses of the hacked individuals to send out phishing emails to unsuspecting victims who see...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jul 13, 2012 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Data breaches are a fact of modern digital life. This week hundreds of thousands of Yahoo users had their usernames and passwords stolen from one of their databases and just within the past month social network sites Formspring and LinkedIn had their databases hacked...
