Credit and debit card skimming: According to the FBI, “skimming” refers to stealing debit or credit card information via a special device—a skimmer—illegally attached to an ATM, gas pump, or point-of-sale terminal. Scammers use the information they collect from skimming to create fake car...
Everyone, from the President of the United States, Donald Trump, to the roadside political henchman today knows about fake news. This is the news that does not exist but has been cooked up to influence and provoke people into action. Images, videos and texts are morphed and created to give...
Get Your Credit Report FREE! Are you interested in learning how to get a free credit report? How about a free credit score? Is a credit report freeis a question that gets asked quite a bit by those attempting to secure a loan.
Thankfully, there are proactive steps that you can take to report fake websites and get them taken down before they can cause any damage to your business. In this article, we discuss: What’s a fake business website? Impact of fake websites on online businesses Steps to report a fake...
In this case, you should also send a C&D letter to the CMS platform the fake domain runs on. Popular CMS platforms like Wix, Squarespace,Shopify, etc., have guides on this. If you still don’t get a response, try these: Report the fake website to the server host via a C&D letter...
Fake bank text messages are a form of smishing where fraudsters use texts to impersonate financial institutions and phish for PII.
Bonus: The fake urgency Scammers usually try to create some false urgency in order to get you to react quickly and emotionally before you've had time to think about it, or to ask a trusted advisor for their opinion. Notice in this example that it claims that "$499.99" will be withdrawn...
How to spot a fake IRS letter The short answer is to verify directly with the IRS if you get a letter that asks you for personal information or a payment for back taxes, but there are also other signs that the letter you’ve received isn’t on the level. Here’s how you can spot...
To understand how to spot a fake website by checking the domain, you have to understand a little bit about how domains work. But don’t worry, we won’t get too technical. (If you do want to get techincal, check out this article.) The main things you need to know are three parts...
Crypto scams often aim to gain private information, such as security codes, or to trick a person into sending cryptocurrency to a digital wallet that may be compromised. Examples of scams are giveaways, hustles involving new romance, phishing, extortion emails, fake company alerts, blackmail, "...