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Scam alert: Sonic has been hacked and YOUR credit card info might have been stolen.

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Well, another week, and yet another major successful hack.

This time the victim is Sonic Drive-In Restaurants (or more accurately, their customers).

Sonic has now confirmed a recent KrebsonSecurity report that their restaurants’ credit card processing system has been hacked and potentially millions of customers’ credit and debit card information has been stolen.

What’s more, it’s already been confirmed that the stolen credit/debit card info is actively being sold on the black market as we speak.  [Read more…]

Scam alert: Beware fake “Domain Name Renewal” notices that arrive in your postal mail

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Do you have a blog or other type of website that you’ve registered a domain name for?

If so, you need to know about a scam targeting domain owners that’s making the rounds yet again.

As you know, when you registered your site’s domain name you were required to supply your postal mailing address as part of the registration process.

That mailing address is now part of the official registration info that can be publicly accessed by anyone on the Internet by running a simple “Whois” query on your domain name.

Well, scammers are “scraping” the postal addresses from the “Whois” info for every domain they can find and sending the domain owners realistic-looking, but scam invoices for renewing the domain.

There are several clues that can help you identify most paper domain renewal notices as nothing more than scams:  [Read more…]

Scam alert: Don’t fall for the ‘Why are all these strangers following me?’ hoax on Facebook?

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As you probably know, there are almost as many scams and hoaxes on Facebook as there are grains of sand on a beach.

Old scams and hoaxes never really go away, and new ones keep popping up all the time.

There’s a new hoax that’s making the rounds right now, and it’s causing quite a stir among my Facebook friends and blog readers. It works something like this…  [Read more…]

Scam alert: Beware the ‘Free Credit Monitoring’ scam that’s making the rounds right now

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By now you’ve probably heard about the recent Equifax hack that potentially compromised the personal and financial information of almost half of all Americans.

That was by far the largest security breach in history, and unfortunately scammers who weren’t even in on that attack are now taking advantage of the fear and confusion it has created.

One of the most common of these new scams are fake emails that appear to be from the “Big 3” credit reporting agencies offering free credit monitoring services.  [Read more…]

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