5 Coronavirus-Related Cons to Look Out For
Scammers have already jumped on this crisis to take advantage of widespread fear and panic. Whenever a crisis emerges, there are always scammers ready to swoop in and capitalize on the situation. The global outbreak of the coronavirus has provided the perfect...
Smishing brings the Classic Email Scam to Your Mobile Phone
You've heard of phishing. Now, it happens on your mobile phone's SMS text messages. It's called smishing: scam messages sent by text that prompt you to reveal personal information and include links to download malware on your phone. While people have come to expect...
Five Damage Control Steps Post-Data Breach for Identity Theft Victims
We give away our information and our privacy online so freely that most people don’t even think twice about taking steps to protect their anonymity on the web before it is too late. The harm of bad actors getting their hands on your personal identifying information...
Why California’s New Privacy Act has Data Dealers Running Scared
New Consumer Privacy Act makes it easier for consumers to opt out of data sharing, and harder for large businesses to profit off their users. As the saying goes, if you’re not paying for it then YOU are the product. This has been the business model for millions of...
Too Good to Be True: Virtual Assistant Job Scams
Online job seekers lured into handing over personal identifying information and becoming criminal accomplices in growing work-from-home scam. With more small businesses, individual entrepreneurs, and businesses that are mostly, if not entirely online, the job of...
New Confidence Scam Uses Zelle to Ravage Bank Accounts Across the Country
With the rising prevalence of peer-to-peer money transfer apps, this may be the first of a new wave of scams that utilize these accounts to drain bank accounts while averting the protective measures of banks and P2P apps. What is not new is the methods con artists use...
Cryptocurrency Alert: Phony QR Codes Snatch Bitcoins Mid-Transaction
In the heat of the cryptocraze of 2017, people who had never given it a second thought jumped into the world of cryptocurrencies head first. This created the perfect environment for crooks to target those who don't quite understand what they've gotten themselves in...
Facebook Teams Up with UC San Francisco to Read Your Mind
The way we send messages to each other has evolved from the family landline voicemail to predicting text and voice-to-text on phones we carry with us always. Now, communication may be poised to take another leap. Are we ready for it? Jean Mignolet Jean Mignolet...
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