Residenza Il Barone in Tropea, Calabria, Italy. Watch out!
byDon’t be fooled into booking the “apartment.” Ahhh, Tropea! that’s what all the Italians said when they heard that beach town would be the…
Don’t be fooled into booking the “apartment.” Ahhh, Tropea! that’s what all the Italians said when they heard that beach town would be the…
Scooter scammers illustrated. This isn’t exactly new, but great to see scammers busted. Especially idiot scammers. Watch the setup, the hit, the fall, the…
Steal. Drink and snack from the hotel mini-bar, the unethical blogger advises in his unethical December 10, 2014 article. Go ahead and have a…
All this talk of stolen credit cards and “skimming.” Then what? What happens after you’ve swiped your card through a tampered-with ATM, gas pump,…
Are you going to London for the Olympic games this summer? Are you going to Europe? Are you going anywhere? Bob Arno urges you…
Ever use an ATM at a bank after hours? Was it inside a locked vestibule, where you had to swipe your bank card to…
> Even more! See edit at the bottom. 10,000 shipping containers are lost at sea each year! From my naive perspective, I’m shocked by…
I thought Kevin Mitnick was a friend of mine—but that was before I read his forthcoming book, Ghost in the Wires. Kevin’s the consummate…
People often share their credit card anxiety with me. They’re afraid their cards will be lost or stolen and huge bills will be run…
irst there was skimming, now there’s shimming,” says Kim Thomas, former Las Vegas Metro Detective, now an international authority on forgery. Information on this…
Breaking news from Las Vegas Metro’s Kim Thomas, the fraud cop featured in my story on credit card skimmers hidden in gas pumps. Detective…
If you read this blog, you’re probably already security-conscious. But this reminder is worth repeating. Don’t trust anyone. Sorry. It’s a shame that’s what…
Heads up, travelers. Beware the clever new scam happening in hotels now. In order to thwart it, proactive properties are placing notes like this…
Anna Bernanke hung her purse on the back of a chair at Starbucks. It was stolen and, soon after, she and Ben became victims…
A reader wrote of an ATM experience which, soon after, led to $9,000 in fraudulent withdrawals. He was abroad, but this happens at ATMs…
I want to wail even in Sweden, because the country has long been perceived as enjoying a relatively low crime rate. And it did….
Skimmers, officially called magnetic card readers, capture the data on a card’s magnetic strip. Exactly what information is that? Credit and debit cards have…
…¢ Identity theft is now the number one crime in the world. …¢ Las Vegas is number one in the U.S. for ID theft;…
A little background, as reference for my next post: A skimmer is a battery-operated device smaller than a deck of cards with a slot…
A couple of scumbags have been casing neighborhoods in Las Vegas, preying on elders. They chat up residents, pretending to be a former resident…
In Orlando, Bob and I attended a four-day NABI training seminar–that’s the National Association of Bunco Investigators. Don’t you love the word bunco? More…