Scam news 1
Card Tap Scam at Bar
‘This actually happened to me at a bar’: Man shows how you can get scammed by person with card tap reader machine at bar;
One of the most effective marketing techniques a company can use is showcasing a problem consumers may encounter before promising that one of its products or services will fix it—that, or creating content that goes viral.Read more
Scam news 2
That Email Is Not the IRS, It’s a Scam
No one wants the IRS to contact them. You hope to deal with them once a year at tax time, without worrying about audits or mistakes on your numbers. So, if one day, an email from the Internal Revenue Service shows up in your inbox, you’re bound to take it seriously. Well, don’t. In fact, you have my permission to totally ignore any communication from the IRS to your email address—because it’s 100% a scam.Read more
Scam news 3
Email Scam Costliest type of Cybercrime
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A shopping spree in Beverly Hills, a luxury vacation in Mexico, a bank account that jumped from $299.77 to $1.4 million overnight.
From the outside, it looked like Moe and Kateryna Abourched had won the lottery.
But this big payday didn’t come from lucky numbers. Rather, a public school district in Michigan was tricked into wiring its monthly health insurance payment to the bank account of a California nail salon the Abourcheds owned, according to a search warrant application filed by a Secret Service agent in federal court.Read more