Sign In Awareness|News Don’t plug your phone into a free charging station, warns FBI Posted: April 12, 2023byPieter Arntz In a recent tweet, the FBI office in Denver warned consumers against using free public charging stations, stating that criminals have… ...
Why We Tell You About These Scams We do not want you to fall victim to any of these scams. You work hard for your money and want you to be able to save or spend it however you want safely. Always remember the mantra that if it sounds too good to be true, then it probably is. ...
The Boston Division of the FBI issued the warning about tech support scams, but it’s clear that people across the world should heed the warning and that it shouldn’t be confined to the New England region of the United States. The bureau is seeing the scams evolve, with more people fall...
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children provides a free service known as Take It Down, which could help victims who have possession of an image or video file remove or stop the online sharing of nude, partially nude or sexually explicit content that was taken while under ...
to help customers when they become victims of SIM-swapping scams,as detailed in a personal account in 2019 by ZDNet's mobile specialist Matthew Miller. It's a global problem for telcos, too. Australia's Telstra nowflags to banks when a mobile number is ported to counter SIM-swapping ...
Sextortion Scams Now Include Photos of Your Home September 3, 2024 133 Comments An old but persistent email scam known as “sextortion” has a new personalized touch: The missives, which claim that malware has captured webcam footage of recipients pleasuring themselves, now include a photo of...
Whenever something new that can help protect your security pops up, you can count on me to make sure you know about it. Good news. Amazon just got on board the passkey train. Passkeys replace your (probably not that strong) password with something no one can hack: Your fingerprint or ...
Romance scams are on the rise, according to the FBI. ABC15 caught up with a woman in February 2022 whose images had been used to dupe someone. Cynthia Sassi said, “This person was taking videos off of my Instagram account and sending them to him directly as if they were me." ...
Erich Kron, security awareness advocate at KnowBe4, noted that social engineering and scams often rely on eliciting a strong emotional response from victims, causing them to miss or ignore red flags that could otherwise help them avoid falling for the scam. ...
According to the FBI, sextortion usually begins with an adult contacting a minor over “any online platform,” such as games, apps, or social media, to meet and chat. In this particular wave of scams, federal investigators have found the predator poses as a young girl, deceives and manipula...