Identity Theft

Check Fraud You Need to Look Out For

Theft is alive and well even in small communities and seaside vacation destinations like Cape Cod and Nantucket.  In the past several weeks we have seen a rise in fradulent transactions going through customer bank and credit card accounts.  With the busy summer season upon us we must be more careful than ever.  One of the most common means of fraud we have seen in the last several weeks has been a scam where a clerk or agent of a local business will steal a check you have written out to a local business.  They then take that check and….

Protect Yourself Today against the Conficker Virus

Do you have a PC and are currenty using a Windows OS (Operating System), most notably XP or Vista? Then YOU need to pay close attention to what experts are saying about the Conficker Virus which they think will disrupt computers tomorrow on April Fool’s day, if not before. Experts are most worried about the ‘C’ variant of Conficker worm, aka Downadup or Kido, which infects Windows machines (XP and Vista) and disables them to get security updates or patches from Microsoft and from other vendors. The ‘B’ variant of the Conficker worm was causing problems in January of this….