Tag Archive for: Scams

‘Tis the season for scams

Victims of scams are encouraged to report them. The Federal Trade Commission collects the emails for research about spam trends and puts them into a database made available to law enforcement agencies, says the FTC’s Daniel Salsburg …
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Protect yourself: Holidays are prime time for scams

As the holiday shopping season revs up, an increasing number of cybercriminals are trying to lure online shoppers into divulging sensitive information on bogus forms, or into clicking on viral Web links or videos that will infect your PC with a …
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scams alarm faculty, UT IT crowd responds

The number of scams within UT computer systems has risen since previous months, but campus security officers are doing what they can to make sure members of the UT community don’t get hooked. “” describes a form of hacking …
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First Person: Identifying Bank Scams

*Note: This was written by a Yahoo! contributor. Do you have a personal finance story that you’d like to share? Sign up with the Yahoo! Contributor Network to start publishing your own finance articles. I have noticed an increase in the number …
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