scams

The scammers are now using Amazon's good name to trick you into landing a job to nowhere with the phony cloak colored as a stay-at-home job.

Once the port is in place, the criminals can then access your financial accounts by using the two-factor authentication by text message.

One example of this is when customers have tried to call Amazon to cancel their Prime products.

As Cyber Monday and the season for online shopping quickly approaches, it’s worth taking a few moments to ensure you’re not giving the gift of your personal or financial information.

Summer is right around the corner and while we're busy grilling, riding the ATV trails and getting ready for camp, the scammers are busy trying to ruin your summer plans.

This is probably one of the trickiest and dastardly scams out there. The scammers want you to say “yes”, so they can record it, and here’s how they’ll get you to do it.

Today, we really have to be careful with 'free' email accounts that we may have. For those of you that have Yahoo, be warned that you may have been hacked again.

Every year, millions of consumers fall victim to cybercrime. According to the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center consumers lost more than $1 billion from scams initiated through the web in 2015.

Every year, millions of consumers fall victim to cybercrime.
According to the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center, in 2014, consumers lost more than $800 million from scams initiated through the web. In recognition of Internet Safety Month in June, Katahdin Trust has recently launched a “Don’t Get …