Scams and Crime
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Snooping By Online Cloud Storage and Communications Providers Catches Child Porn – But At What Price?
February 25, 2020Last summer, after Microsoft notified law enforcement that a Florida man had uploaded child pornography to...
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Hackers Impersonating Rabbis Are Targeting Jewish Congregations With Email Scams
January 29, 2020Hackers are sending emails to members of Jewish congregations in the USA, pretending to be the...
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Never Trust Caller ID: Sophisticated Scammers Use It To Impersonate Credit Card Issuers
January 29, 2020Over the last 48 hours I have received multiple phone calls on two different phones lines...
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US Offers Unprecedented $5-Million Reward For Information Leading To The Capture of 2 Russian Hackers
December 5, 2019The United States Department of Justice has offered a $5-Million reward for information leading to the...
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Why Scammers Make Spelling and Grammar “Mistakes”
September 2, 2019I am frequently asked why phishing emails and other scam messages often contain spelling mistakes and...
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Capital One Breach Statement: No Social Security Numbers Were Compromised… Other Than 140,000 Social Security Numbers
July 30, 2019Capital One Financial Corporation announced today that ten days ago it determined that an unauthorized party,...
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Fraudulent WhatsApp Messages Circulate Telling Users That They Must Pay To Continue Using the App
July 8, 2019Over the past few days, several scam messages began circulating via WhatsApp – some of which...
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Perfectly-Timed Phishing Emails Trick Both Man and Machine
May 13, 2019On Thursday, I received two email messages from American Express that arrived within seconds of one...
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Scam Alert: Fake Social Security Administration Warning About Your Social Security Number Being Compromised
May 1, 2019A new variant of an old scam seems to have recently resurfaced, so here is a...
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FBI: $2.7 Billion Of Cybercrime Complaints In 2018; Many Of The Crimes Involve No Hacking
April 25, 2019The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) this week released its 2018 Internet Crime Report which...