Scams and Crime
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Uber’s Former Chief Security Officer (CSO) Charged With Crimes For Allegedly Trying To Cover Up Data Breach
August 25, 2020A criminal complaint filed last Thursday in federal court charges Uber’s former Chief Security Officer (CSO),...
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You May Receive Seeds From China In The Mail – If You Do, Contact The Government And Do Not Plant The Seeds
July 28, 2020Over the past few days, Americans across the country have reported receiving unsolicited packages of seeds...
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Beware Fraudulent Businesses Claiming That Real Experts Serve On Their Teams
April 27, 2020Over the past couple weeks I have been contacted by multiple people who have lost money...
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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...