Beware of the Online Holiday Shopping Scam
With more people buying gifts online over the holidays, the potential for fraud is high. “Scammers know people are looking for good deals and trying to fulfill their holiday wish lists, often without a lot of time,” said Michael Kaiser, executive director of the National Cyber Security Alliance. A lot is at stake. On Cyber Monday alone — the Monday after Thanksgiving when retailers tend to run big promotions on the Web — as many as...
How to Avoid Scam Hotel Bookings
Pay attention or pay the price. That’s the bottom line on an online hotel-booking scam that’s recently caught the attention of a U.S. senator who has asked the Federal Trade Commission to look into these insidious schemes. This isn’t a new hoax, but it has recently come to the attention of Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, who has expressed his concerns in a letter to the FTC. In it, he noted that duplicitous third-party booking sites,...
Dominated by Women, Pinterest Looks to Attract More Men
San Francisco — Artist Tim Odell uses Pinterest to gather images of classic Pontiac cars, U.S. Navy battleships and medieval armor, which he re-creates as a hobby. He isn’t the typical user of the photo-collecting site. Nationwide, about 71 percent of Pinterest’s 76.6 million unique visitors in April were women, data from the Internet analytics company comScore showed. But Pinterest has been beefing up efforts this year to attract...
