Posts Tagged ‘Better Business Bureau’
IN THE HEADLINES: Epsilon Data Breach Keeps on Giving
Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● April 15, 2011
Last week the massive data breach at an email marketing firm exposing the contact information of millions of U.S. consumers to as-yet-unidentified hackers dominated the headlines. Characterized as possibly one of the worst data breaches ever, security, marketing, and media experts have been all abuzz about the long-term fallout of the breach and what we [...]
Japan and New Zealand: Epicenters of Fraud
Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● March 16, 2011
With every tragedy comes opportunity. The opportunity to learn, to rebuild, to do things better, and to prove that people around the world will rush to the help of their fellow man. Between the 6.3-magnitude Christchurch Earthquake on February 22 and the 8.9-magnitude earthquake and tsunami off the coast of Japan on March 11, stories [...]
Spring: A Season for Sun, Students, and Scams
Posted by: ID Guardian in: ● March 11, 2011
March ushers in warmer temperatures, a deep-seeded passion for college hoops, and a change from the bleakness of Winter to something brighter and livelier. March also means students begin planning for their Spring Break destinations. Some may head down south to Key West or even further into the tropics. Some may set their week-long respite [...]
Warning: Email Scammers Prey Upon the Unemployed
Posted by: Michael Stanfield in: ● January 19, 2011
While many economists are increasingly upbeat about the pace of the economic recovery, the jobless rate remains painfully high at 9.4 percent. With this persistent weakness in the job market, scammers are turning to the internet with a new take on traditional work-from-home scams. As WTOP recently reported, one popular scam entails emails to victims [...]
IN THE HEADLINES: Better Business Bureau’s Top Five Identity Theft Scams of 2010
Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● January 3, 2011
The Better Business Bureau (BBB) recently issued what it describes as the Top 5 identity theft scams it saw in 2010.
IN THE HEADLINES: Job Hunts Still Leading to Identity Theft
Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● October 1, 2010
Authorities across the country are responding to increased reports about identity thieves taking advantage of job hunters. But this time it’s not the job hunters who are complaining, it’s the employers they thought they were going to work for. A number of companies have reported receiving calls and emails from job hunters responding to ads [...]
IN THE HEADLINES: Work-at-Home Scams Flourish in a Down Economy
Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● August 10, 2010
Maybe you’ve seen the ads too – web sites that look like real news sites speaking great things about a work-at-home program that can net you thousands of dollars a month doing very little and knowing very little. Sounds like an obvious scam, but wait. It’s got a real news anchor claiming it’s the real [...]
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