Romance Scams: Recognition and Recovery
A romance scam involves a perpetrator building a fraudulent, often romantic relationship with an online victim. This leads to the perpetrator playing to the emotions of their victim in hopes of extorting money, gifts, or personal information....
Security Alert - Phishing Your Account
Guard against data-breach phishing scams
Double-check that spam filter: The Better Business Bureau (BBB) is alerting consumers to the first phishing e-mail it says stemmed from a massive data breach earlier this month (WalletPop April 8).
E-mail marketing firm Epsilon reported the ...
Phishing/Vishing/Smishing
Phishing, vishing and smishing are all ways for a thief to use current technology to get you personal account information to use for fraudulent purposes.
Phishing
This is a scam that uses email or pop-up messages to trick you into disclosin...
