If anyone–the IRS, the electric company, the police–calls you and asks you to buy a prepaid Visa card or a gift card to pay your bill over the phone, it's not who you think it is. They'll tell you to scratch the numbers off the back and read them the numbers. This is a ploy by scammers to get money from you. Don't fall for it!
This tip was inspired by a recent real-life story of a phone scam that terrified a woman in the San Francisco area: https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/phone-scam-therapists-16483251.php
You'd think that with all the cybersecurity tools and strategies we have at our fingertips, hacks would be a thing of the past, but they're not. What is that?
In 2017, consumer reporting agency Equifax was breached, and the credit records of more than 140 million consumers—more than half the adults in the United States at the time—were extracted
When Daniel Rigmaiden was caught committing tax fraud, little did we know that he would expose an infringement on Fourth Amendment rights and even cause the surveillance laws to change.
