Scam Update: What Is “City Light”?

Scam Update: What Is “City Light”?

We’ve discussed tax season, but what about tax refund season? Every year, stores go all out trying to get a piece of those refunds — and so do scammers. The other day, one of my clients received a call from a non-private number in the same area code, so my client...
The Scam Is Coming From Inside Your Pocket

The Scam Is Coming From Inside Your Pocket

The scam artists never rest, colonizing new habitats with the tenacity of Life itself. The next frontier of fraud is coming from inside…your pocket. SMS, or just “text,” messaging is turning out to be a promising alternative to scam artists who have been banned from...
Debt Relief Scams

Debt Relief Scams

The sheer amount of brainstorming taking place among the country’s scam artists is itself a climate emergency. There’s one variety of scam that I find particularly cynical: debt relief companies that have a whole playbook full of ways to separate desperate people from...
Summertime Cybersecurity Check

Summertime Cybersecurity Check

Now is the time for a cybersecurity check.  Do not wait!  There’s a lot riding on your laptop. It’s probably the only hard drive you save things to, and it just accumulates information as you go about your life. It would be a very valuable asset for fraudsters and...