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Fortune tellers, magicians, and the email extortion scam

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Looking through my inbox, I saw a message from a very familiar address—mine. My first thought when I saw the email was that someone was spoofing my address, so I looked closer. But the closer I looked, the more it appeared someone had hacked my email. With that, I went into research mode, and discovered a clever twist in an email extortion scam.

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How do you outsmart a romance scammer?

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How do you outsmart a romance scammer? The short answer is, you don’t. But that doesn’t mean you have to be a victim, either.

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Tips about Covid unemployment benefit fraud

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It’s a new year. That means it’s also tax season. And more than 23 million people who file taxes will declare unemployment benefits they received. While those benefits helped those who lost their jobs, they were also a boon for scammers.

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A Private Investigator looks at romance scams

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Romance scams have been around a long time, but a new trend is blending romance with the allure of cryptocurrency and fast profits.

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Scam Tip – Taking the chill off the cryocooler

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Have you been receiving a ton of emails about this amazing new device that can cool you off, purify the air, and use less energy while doing it? This scam tip dives into the cryocooler claims.

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Scams against seniors soar in 2020 with four states leading the way

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What do California, Florida, New York, and Texas all have in common? Climate? Nope. Attitudes? Not in this universe. Scams? Bingo! According to the FBI’s 2020 Elder Fraud Report, these four states have the highest incidence of scams against seniors in the country and account for almost one-third of the crimes reported in the US.  […]

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Avoiding scams in the age of Covid-19

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Rather than address a specific scam in this month’s tip, I wanted to step back and look at the bigger picture of online security during Covid-19. In my fiction writing, a confluence of events drives my stories, and this scam tip is no different. Two events happened this past week that caused me to think about how to maintain online security during the age of Covid-19.

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5 tips to avoid a package delivery scam

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For most of us, shopping online has become the way to go during the 2020 holiday season. In our house, we get packages by mail, UPS, FedEx, and Amazon delivery. We’ve also heard how the delivery services are all pushed to their limits. With all that in mind, I wanted to provide this post with 5 tips to avoid package delivery scams.

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