Month: March 2015

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So today I did the first interview for our next podcast, with Steve Baker, regional director of the FTC.  It’s a very interesting listen.  We have a few more interviews to do, then I’ll be putting the podcast together.  Right now we have 3 other people lined up, all business owners, and all involved in […]

So tomorrow we start interviews with people for our next podcast, to be released on the 26th.  We have one BIG name I’m really looking forward to talking to.  More info soon….

The email had an attachment that I’m not opening as it’ll contain a virus or be a phishing link.  Be aware of these kinds of scams this time of year After the last annual calculations of your fiscal activity , we determined that you are aligible to receive a tax refund of 323.56 GPB. Please […]

Hard to believe that in less than 3 years, we’ve seen such a response the issue of blackmail scams, also known as sextortion.  When we first started with the forms, we would have 2 or 3 a day, now the numbers are ten times that.  I was recently asked by the media if it was […]

You know what’s weird?  Some of the best articles we’ve been a part of were ones with little or no work beforehand.  This week’s one was literally a call out of the blue, followed by about 20 minutes of my explaining how the scams work before the article appeared online less than 24 hours later. […]

Unbelievable.  After almost 3 months, “Robert Carbuccia” is back.  Still the same old script, same name and same numbers that never work.  Wonder where he’s been all this time.

Here’s an article from today on newsweek.com that I was interviewed for just yesterday. http://www.newsweek.com/sextortion-scams-rise-europe-312634 Experts and police are warning that so-called “sextortion” scams, whereby a scammer will dupe a victim into stripping and performing sex acts online before demanding a sum of money or threatening to release the footage, are increasing across Europe. The […]

Yes, they recorded your video.  That’s how the scam works. Yes, they threatened to send it to everyone.  Again, it’s how the scam works. Yes, we have seen cases like this before.  Thousands of them in fact.  It’s very rare someone is able to tell us something new the scammer did. Yes, they showed you […]

“I have no money and need a loan.” “I can give you a loan.  How much do you need?” “How about a thousand dollars.” “Sure.  Now, before you can get this loan you need to give us 87 dollars in fees.  What do you mean you don’t have the money for the fees?  Can’t you […]