Ex-Cash4Gold employee Vielka Nephew filed a motion to vacate the default in the company’s lawsuit against her this week, a lawsuit we’re a party to. By getting rid of the default she would then be able to defend herself in the lawsuit and to seek to undo the default injunction which Cash4Gold had obtained against [...]

MODELING, ACTING SCAMS COST A PRETTY PENNY
How you become a target for a scam
Whether your friends tell you you ought to be a model or in the movies because you’re tall, shapely, handsome, funny, etc., or whether your appearance is less than that of an Adonis or Aphrodite and you’ve never acted in anything more [...]

I got a email today with a attachment saying Barbrough.doc sent to my personal email. Considering it’s my last name is Barbrough and it was sent to my personal email and the it was from the email ericmackx24@googlemail.com which had no record I bit for a second. Yes the email is a from a free [...]

Developers trying to benefit from the success of others on the App Store is nothing new. The most common method thus far has been to use the names of some of the more popular apps in the description of a different app, so when an individual searches for the more popular app, the seedy developer’s [...]

Social Networking Scams
“I’m traveling in London and I’ve lost my wallet. Can you wire some money?”
Social networking sites have opened a whole new door for social engineering scams, according to Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant with U.K.-based security firm Sophos. One of the latest involves the criminal posing as a Facebook “friend.” They send a [...]

What are the steps I should take if I’m a victim of identity theft?
If you are a victim of identity theft, take the following four steps as soon as possible, and keep a record with the details of your conversations and copies of all correspondence.
1. Place a fraud alert on your credit reports, and review [...]

City boy: ‘We were aggressive with our sales pitch and didn’t give risk warnings if we could avoid it’. Photograph: Grant Smith/Rex Features
Pacific Continental Securities was possibly the UK’s most notorious firm of stockbrokers. Its team of young salesmen used high-pressure tactics to lure clients into buying shares that for most investors were almost a [...]