Better Beware! – WFHB
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Better Beware – Your Money Takes Flight
Credit card “skimmers” have been around for awhile, stealing your info when you swipe a card. Microchips embedded in a card that you insert were a solution – until the fraudsters invented “shimmers”…
Better Beware – Hammering Your Tax
Tax Time is upon us. The deadline to file your Income Tax is April 15, and as always, scammers are jumping on the opportunity to fool you into paying them instead of the IRS. Nowadays, artificial…
Better Beware – The War In Cyberspace
Here’s some more info about last week’s email hack at WFHB, including a timely headsup. Beyond that, there’s an urgent warning to everyone who uses the internet for anything, anytime: the internet is…
Better Beware – Taken For A Ride
This morning WFHB’s email got hacked! We all got a phony email that looked like it came from our Development Director — but it didn’t. And you may have gotten it, so here’s the warning. You may have…
Better Beware – Looking Ahead
Fraud is continuing to grow, and grow, and grow — all over the world, and very much right here in the USA. Here’s a look at the latest statistics and some of the most dangerous con games that are…
Better Beware – The Loneliness Trap
You — or someone you know and love — may be about to have a very UNhappy Valentine’s Day, if a “Romance Scammer” has been in touch. This kind of fraud is absolutely exploding today, because…
Better Beware – Snow Jobs
When bad weather hits — like what we’ve been having! — fraudsters are always happy if they can make it worse. There are several kinds of scams that get hot when the temperature falls, and here are…
Better Beware – Who’s Looking At You?
IP Cameras are very popular–and can be very dangerous. IP stands for “Internet Protocol” because these tiny video cameras send pictures, and sometimes sound, over the internet. More and more people…
Better Beware – Scams Local and National
Swindlers from halfway around the world can get their sights on local targets — and locally-based fraudsters can pick up on schemes that are being worked all over the country. Here are a couple of…
Better Beware – Toying With Artificial Intelligence
Toys that talk aren’t new, but the latest generation of them doesn’t have a string to pull, or some recorded responses on a circuit chip. Instead, they connect to an Artificial Intelligence chatbot,…
Better Beware – Holiday Reminders
Here’s a headsup about “wrong numbers” that are only wrong if you respond to them! — and some reminders about staying safe when you shop for holiday gifts, or travel to see friends and family during…
Better Beware – Phone-y Voicemails
I got a couple of phone calls last week from scammers. Robocalls usually hang up, but these fraudsters actually left voicemails! Of course it was easy enough to record them and put them on the radio.…
Better Beware – Keeping Holidays Happy
There’s a problem with your account! Oh yeah? Who are you, really? This scam has been ramping up lately, and getting more dangerous because the crooks are getting more sophisticated at impersonating…
Better Beware – Ripping Off The Fat Of The Land
Happy Thanksgiving — and watch out. The Better Business Bureau is warning about a particularly nasty weight-loss swindle, using a deepfake video of Oprah Winfrey. The swindlers have a lot of targets,…
Better Beware – Stealing Your Home
Do you own your home? Or do you own property of any kind, anywhere? It’s actually possible for some fraudster to steal your home right out from under you, without your knowing it. Title Fraud is a…
Better Beware – Gmail And More: Are You At Risk?
Recently a massive “data leak” exposed account information, including usernames and passwords, for more than 184,000,000 people! This affected Apple, Facebook, Instagram — and Google, which includes…
Better Beware – The Supremes and the Androids
A double-barrelled warning this time. Anyone who has a social security number, or an Android cellphone (that’s Google’s system, not Apple’s iPhone) are at risk from some very ingenious scammers right…
Better Beware – The Definite DO’s – updated
Let’s face it – scammers and swindlers are out of control. You and I get hit on by fraudsters every day, usually several times in various ways, and there is no reason to think that’s ever going to…
Better Beware – The Big Don’ts – Updated
Instead of focusing on a particular scam, we’ve compiled a list of the most important mistakes people make — things you should NEVER do, in order to stay safe in these days of massive fraud…
Better Beware – Grand Theft Auto — Yours!
Modern cars are supposed to be more secure than ever before. But what one person can invent, another person can figure out — and car thieves have figured out how to defeat modern electronic security…
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