Consumer Law

Jury Duty Scam
We have learned that the Nassau County, New York jury clerk is warning citizens reporting for jury duty of a scam being perpetrated to improperly learn personal information, including dates of birth and social security numbers, for apparent use in identity theft...

MS Word: Dont clean up your tables. Style them!
The most frequent “reason” I hear for manually typing tables of contents and authorities in a complex Word document is that the Word-generated tables must always be “cleaned up...

Poisoned Phishing Kit Steals From Criminals
Source: InformationWeek Daily Newsletter, January 24, 2008. Poisoned Phishing Kit Steals From Criminals"The phishing kit includes a back door that sends a copy of each victim's details back to the scam artists...

Fake Subpoena Email Phishing Scam
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is alerting computer users about a new scam email that contains a fraudulent "court subpoena" purportedly from a federal district court in California, and instructs recipients that they are to appear and testify before a...

CEOs: Beware of 'Spear-Phising'
Source: Lexology, May 23, 2008. CEOs: beware of 'spear-phishing'Miller Canfield Paddock & Stone"By now, most e-mail users are wise to the scam of 'phishing' -- sending a spoofed e-mail message that appears to be from a legitimate business, such as a bank, which directs the recipient to a fake web site seeking "verification" of personal information such as passwords or credit card numbers...

Why phishing works
Rachna Dhamija, J. D. Tygar and Marti Hearst from the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Science have published an academic paper explaining "Why Phishing Works". Here is the abstract: To build systems shielding users from fraudulent (or phishing) websites, designers need to know which attack strategies work and why...

FDA
Warns of Extortion Scam by FDA Impersonators

FRS Healthy Energy
alleging the quercetin benefits from FRS energy products are a scam.

Medicare Fraud
Besler & Co. will pay $2.9 million to settle Medicare scam.

Transit Technicians Scam
Two Municipal Transportation Agency agree to pay $287,000 settlement for stealing money from fare boxes.