"APD said the scammers will call, text or e-mail victims and tell them the Social Security Administration is changing their Social Security number," KALB reported in April of 2023. "They will then instruct the victims to tell the scammers what their Social Security number is so that the ...
Timeshares and scams have always gone hand-in-hand. Once, while on a vacation to Florida, my parents fell for one. Some promoters said they’d give us a free cordless phone if we listened to their pitch. We all (3 of us being young children) sat around for an hour, then left with...
3 The Identity Expense Reimbursement and the Unauthorized Electronic Fund Transfer Reimbursement benefits are underwritten and administered by American Bankers Insurance Company of Florida, an Assurant company, under group or blanket policies issued to Generali Global Assistance, Inc., dba Iris® Powered...
Note that FDR chose the word “insurance” very carefully because at that time “insurance” was highly regarded as “safe”. He knew full well that this was a fraud because there was nothing “saved” to pay benefits. It should have been obvious to the rubes when the first (white) woma...
Adam Levin. He’s a consumer affairs advocate and nationally recognized expert on cybersecurity, identity theft, fraud, and personal finance. He’s the author ofSwiped, How to Protect Yourself in a World Full of Scammers, Fishers, and Identity Thieves. And he’s the host of the podcast,...
First issued in 1936, the Social Security Number (SSN) was created to track the earnings of US workers to compute their Social Security benefits, a newly created social insurance program. A nine-digit number issued to US citizens and permanent and temporary residents, Social Security benefits ...
HashiCorp is a remote-first firm that handles infrastructure development, security, and operational problems. Details of the startup: Country: United States State: California City: San Francisco Started in: 2012 Founders: Armon Dadgar, Mitchell Hashimoto Number of employees: 1001-5000 Funding: $349...
On October 30, Canadian authorities arrested Alexander Moucka, a.k.a. Connor Riley Moucka of Kitchener, Ontario, on a provisional arrest warrant from the United States. Bloomberg first reported Moucka’s alleged ties to the Snowflake hacks on Monday. ...
• Court approves first-of-its-kind data breach settlement. AvMed agrees to set aside $3 million for breach victims, whether they suffered direct harm or not. • FTC Deputy Director Daniel Kaufman Backs Civil Penalties for Large Breaches ...
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 the target’s home in a bid to make threats about publishing the videos more ...