The Federal Trade Commission is cautioning consumers looking forward to rebate checks from the government that they may be targets of scammers out to steal their identity. The agency has issued an alert to help consumers avoid this situation.
The schemes work like this: consumers get a call or an e-mail claiming to be from the […]
E-mail scams have taken a new and ominous tone.
“I am very sorry for you is (sic) a pity that this is how your life is going to end as soon as you don’t comply,” the e-mail begins. “Someone you call a friend wants you Dead by all means.”
It goes on to say the writer has […]
A famous New Yorker cartoon from 1993 showed two dogs at a computer, with one saying to the other, “On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.”
That may no longer be true.
A new analysis of online consumer data shows that large Web companies are learning more than ever before the gritty details of what people […]