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Category: Fraud

SolarWinds Hack & Pandemic – Sheer Madness

December 28, 2020 CardBuzz Staff 113 Comments

The SolarWinds hack of supply chains did unfathomable devastation to the U.S. while the ravages of a global pandemic raged…

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Posted in: Breach, BUSINESS, Cybersecurity, Fraud, Military, Scams, Security, Uncategorized

Digital Coin Gem Scam Nets $147MM

February 21, 2020 CardBuzz Staff 95 Comments

A Southern California man collected about $147 million from more than 70,000 investors around the world by promising them profits…

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Posted in: BUSINESS, Cryptocurrency, Digital Banking, Fraud, Scams, Uncategorized

Kicking the Trade – Repo a New Personal Financial Tool

February 19, 2020 CardBuzz Staff

The trade-in, where a buyer hands a car back to a dealership and uses it as credit toward another one,…

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Posted in: CONSUMER, Consumer Debt, Debt, Debt Collection, Fraud, Uncategorized

PC Gizmos are Disturbingly Unprotected – Easily Hackable

CardBuzz Staff

That laptop on your desk or that server on a data center rack isn’t so much a computer as a…

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Posted in: Breach, BUSINESS, Cybersecurity, Fraud, Security, Uncategorized

Robocallers Call into a New Revenge Trap

February 14, 2020 CardBuzz Staff

DoNotPay, the family of consumer advocacy services meant to protect people from corporate exploitation, is launching a new app aimed…

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Posted in: CONSUMER, Fraud, FTC, Mobile, Scams, Uncategorized

Estonia’s Cyber Defence Unit Really Works

CardBuzz Staff

United States policymakers have long sought ways to boost federal agencies’ capacity to implement cybersecurity and plan for significant cyber…

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Posted in: BUSINESS, Cybersecurity, Fraud, Security, Uncategorized

Coronavirus Scams Spread Rapidly Exploiting Fear

January 31, 2020 CardBuzz Staff

A sample phishing email, detected by security firm Mimecast, shows attackers disseminating malicious links and PDFs that claim to contain…

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Posted in: CONSUMER, Fraud, Health, Medical, Scams, Uncategorized

Build Border Protection – Destroy Consumer Protection

January 29, 2020 CardBuzz Staff

The GOP continues on its path to destroy all things Obama and its crown jewel is to dismantle the Consumer…

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Posted in: BUSINESS, CFPB, Fraud, Uncategorized

H.S. Teacher Kraninger Further Defangs CFPB Powers

January 28, 2020 CardBuzz Staff

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is putting limits on the ways that it will use its power to pursue banks…

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Posted in: BUSINESS, CFPB, Fraud, Litigation, Scams, Uncategorized

Email Scams Move Beyond Penis Enlargement & Nigerian Princes

December 27, 2019 CardBuzz Staff

Email grifts have evolved significantly over the last decade, as scammers have learned that they can extract much bigger payouts…

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Posted in: CONSUMER, Fraud, Money Laundering, Scams

Fake Stores Selling $70 Sheepskin Coats to Stupids

December 26, 2019 CardBuzz Staff

The image on the website showed a full-length coat of buttery sheepskin and plush gray fur, described as being made…

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Posted in: CONSUMER, Fraud, Social Media, Spending

NULS Blockchain Platform Hacked Does Hard Fork

CardBuzz Staff

Blockchain platform Nuls has been hacked, losing almost $480,000 worth of NULS. Nuls said it had detected that 2 million…

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Posted in: Blockchain, BUSINESS, Cryptocurrency, Fintech, Fraud, Security

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