March 10, 2010 - During the school holidays I was surprised by the number of people I spoke to who commented that they had received a larger than normal number of phishing emails in their inbox. But it was a conversation I had with ... Read more
March 9, 2010 - Welcome to my inaugural blog about online threats! The purpose of this blog is to alert families to some of the dirty tricks that the bad guys use to scam families on the Internet. The first scam I’m going to tell ... Read more
March 8, 2010 - ** Consumer Threat Alert ** Consumer Threat Alert ** Fake Anti-Virus Software Scams On The Rise “Scareware” offering computer users fake anti-virus and anti-spyware software has more than doubled since the first quarter of 2009, affecting around 69,000 ... Read more
May 13, 2009 - Identity theft is a definite threat to us all, effecting hundreds of people everyday across the globe. There are insurance policies that can be taken out in order to cover yourself against ID theft, but this may not be necessary, ... Read more
May 11, 2009 - Protecting your identity offline is just as important as protecting it online. Identity theft means to impersonate a real person. In short, identity theft is a crime against another person. Victims of the attack could face unwanted trouble and expense ... Read more
May 11, 2009 - 1. Never write checks from your personal account to an individual whom you are not familiar with. Rather, provide cash, a bank draft or using Western Union. Although you did not register for online banking, anyone can remove money from ... Read more
May 10, 2009 - Identity theft or ID theft is a criminal offense in which a thief steals valuable documents belonging to an individual that includes a Social Security number and a driver’s license number. Once a thief was able to obtain this critical ... Read more
May 9, 2009 - To define Identity Theft, one may refer to many different sources but, what it all boils down to is that it occurs when someone steals another person’s name and other personal information to fraudulently use such illegally obtained ... Read more
