The California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) has learned of a text message phishing scam related to REAL ID and reminds customers that it will never ask for personal information related to driver’s license number, Social Security number or financial information through email, text or over the phone. The DMV has heard from multiple customers […]
Imperial Irrigation District is warning customers of ongoing scam calls, emails and in person contact demanding payments. “If you are contacted by anyone who threatens something like this, it is likely fraudulent activity,” said IID in a statement, “If your electric account is delinquent, IID will notify you—in writing—before your service is shut-off for non-payment.” […]
Robert Goldhammer and his husband, from Bermuda Dunes, received a text from an out of state number with a link from the County of Riverside. “Recently you visited one of our COVID-19 testing sites, we need additional information so that we may bill the proper insurance company,” says Robert as he reads from the message […]
At an office building in Monrovia. Several locations in San Francisco, in Raleigh, North Carolina and at a high school in the Bronx, New York just to name a few. Different cities, same message. Pay up or the bomb will blow. “The nature of these threats are similar to threats received by businesses and schools […]
Google — which a year ago vowed to clamp down on Gmail users’ privacy — has reportedly been letting outside app developers scan millions of inboxes, according to a Wall Street Journal examination. Despite the promise from Google last June to stop scanning Gmail messages for the purpose of selling targeted ads, the tech giant has been allowing […]
Palm Springs, CA An internet phishing scam is re-appearing, but this time it’s targeting parent’s by playing on their fears. It’s known that there are many scams out there with one goal in mind: to bait you into clicking and then stealing all of your information. This time the spoofers are trying to catch concerned […]
