Written By Digital Content Editor Thomas Ahearn On April 5, 2023, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued the annual Dirty Dozen List of Tax Scams for 2023 with a reminder for taxpayers, businesses, and tax professionals to watch out for these schemes throughout the year, not just during tax season, to protect against identity theft…
Written By Digital Content Editor Thomas Ahearn The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) – America’s consumer protection agency – will mark its annual Identity Theft Awareness Week with a series of free events focused on how identity theft affects people and ways to reduce risk from Monday, January 30, 2023, to Friday, February 3, 2023, according…
Written By Digital Content Editor Thomas Ahearn While online shopping deals roll out on “Black Friday,” the Friday after Thanksgiving that traditionally starts the Christmas shopping season, and “Cyber Monday,” the Monday after Thanksgiving, “so do some of the worst Black Friday and Cyber Monday scams,” according to a blog from McAfee, a worldwide leader…
Written By Digital Content Editor Thomas Ahearn On October 27, 2022, the South Carolina Attorney General announced that the office’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit (SCMFCU) had arrested a woman for allegedly practicing medicine as a registered nurse without a license at nursing and assisted living facilities, according to a news release from the South Carolina…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is urging taxpayers to stay resolute against ongoing scams and schemes by properly securing computers, tablets, and phones since solid cybersecurity protection and scam recognition are vital to reduce the threat of identity theft inside and outside the tax system, according to…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has released statistics from the FTC’s Consumer Sentinel Network Data Book 2021 that shows consumers reported losing more than $5.8 billion to fraud in 2021, an increase of more than 70 percent over the previous year, according to a press release from…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will host a series of free events focused on trending issues in identity theft that include how to reduce the risk of identity theft and recover if it occurs to mark Identity Theft Awareness Week that takes place from Monday, January 31,…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn “Black Friday” – the Friday after Thanksgiving that is one of the busiest online shopping days of the year – will be impacted by supply chain issues, shipping delays, and COVID-19 in 2021, “which will inject a heightened level of stress and panic buying” that may lead…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn Identity theft cases surged in New York State in 2020 as identity theft complaints surpassed 67,000 statewide during that year, more than four times the annual total from a decade earlier, according to data from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) that was cited in a report from…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn A Utah-based smart home security and monitoring company has agreed to pay $20 million to settle charges filed by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) that claimed the firm allegedly violated the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) by improperly obtaining credit reports in order to qualify potential customers…
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