Let us move on to the ways to protect ourselves in the future by using a credit freeze or fraud alert. These options can protect your personal, private, and confidential information after a security breach and effectively add extra protection against identity theft. We have discussed them briefly in the…
Equifax presents an interesting question to consumers. Somehow, an entity that no consumer may have had an actual interaction with has their information, and had leaked it out onto the world. For example, names, phone numbers, credit card numbers, social security numbers, addresses, e-mails were collected and released to unauthorized…
You may have been considering legal actions due to a recent internet scam. Or, you may be wondering what other options you may have for dealing with the issue outside of the legal sphere. Naturally, legal recourse may provide financial or equitable remedies (e.g., temporary restraining orders) but usually there…
So, despite your best efforts, you may have been cat-fished, doxed or otherwise victim to an online scam. Your information is probably now out into the Internet and a stranger that you may have trusted now has personally identifying information. So, your next question may be “well, what comes next?”…
Now that we’ve discussed Catfishing as a scam, let’s go into further detail regarding the motives. Like any scam, there must be some benefit to the scammer. This benefit is the primary motive for anyone to commit a catfishing scam. Previously, we mentioned that among other things, the perpetrator may…
If you have been online, it is possible that a person has attempted to “catfish” you. However, you may not have been able to adequately understand it because you were not looking for the telltale signs. It is a type of an online scam, like phishing, meant to take advantage…
Now, aside from Bitcoin and other digital currencies spawning from video games and consumer-oriented companies, it’s important to be aware that there are other types of digital currencies or so-called “cryptocurrencies.” These operate more similarly to Bitcoin in how they generally lack a centralized system that assigns value (compared to…
The legality of certain virtual currencies can be murky. While some currencies, like Bitcoin, can be readily traded for goods and services, however, other virtual currencies remain where regulation is more questionable. To that point, the curators of digital economies have hired economists to better model the value of these…
Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency that has been in the news and in conversations recently for various reasons. While not all retailers will take Bitcoin, and there are fairly good reasons not to, but the cryptocurrency has really taken off. However, despite how much the word “Bitcoin” is used, the nature…
In March 2017, the WannaCry ransomware attack occurred which was believed to be one of the largest ransomware attacks in history. Discussions of this past attack and who should take the blame has been previously discussed in our blog and newsletter. Now, just a few months later there has been…