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Month: July 2022

Cybercrime / Privacy

Data brokers, in bed with scammers, aimed their algorithms at millions of elderly, vulnerable

July 27, 2022 Bob Sullivan 8

Several large data brokers profited for years by selling what are known, cruelly, as “suckers lists” to criminals who used them to fine-tune scams designed to cheat elderly and vulnerable people, a new report on LawfareBlog explains. It’s a stomach-churning analysis which shines a harsh light on an open secret [Keep reading]

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Zelle scam threatens baker’s dream business

July 17, 2022 Bob Sullivan 5

A new season of The Perfect Scam has launched and we begin with a story that is very sweet. It’s actually about cookies. Not the kind that track you, but the kind you can eat!  Unfortunately, before Lura’s Kitchen was able to send out its first order of cookies, criminals [Keep reading]

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BOB SULLIVAN is a veteran journalist and the author of four books, including the 2008 New York Times Best-Seller, Gotcha Capitalism, and the 2010 New York Times Best Seller, Stop Getting Ripped Off! His latest, The Plateau Effect, was published in 2013, and as a paperback, called Getting Unstuck in 2014. He has won the Society of Professional Journalists prestigious Public Service award, a Peabody award, and The Consumer Federation of America Betty Furness award, and been given Consumer Action’s Consumer Excellence Award.

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