identity theft Tag

by Freddy Tran Nager, Founder of the one and only Atomic Tango LLC (at least for now)… Nothing about the email set off my usually hypersensitive B.S. detector. It had landed in my business inbox with the subject line, “Confirm: About “atomictango” registration.” I didn’t recognize the sender’s name, Gerry Gu from p-xi.org, but emails from strangers are common in business, so I opened it and the message seemed friendly enough…Read More

by Freddy Tran Nager, the ONE and ONLY, of Atomic Tango LLC So there’s a department at Twitter called Twitter Trust & Safety. For that alone, they should be sued for false advertising, since Twitter can no longer be trusted to protect the safety of your ideas and identity. I’ve been on Twitter for several years now in the form of my company profile, @AtomicTango. Here’s what my actual profile looks like: Then something recently happened that made me wish I had never started a Twitter account in the firstRead More

by Freddy Tran Nager, Founder of Atomic Tango + Marketing Forensics Expert… Paige H. got a huge surprise this week. The 20-something Midwesterner had attempted to keep a low profile online: “no MySpace, no Facebook, no blog” — indeed, she’s long had a “distaste for the world of social networking websites.” And yet, thanks to a marketing schemer, she became one of the most popular girls on Facebook… but under the name “Monica Rockle.” I blogged about the “Monica Rockle” charade back in March. A T-shirt marketer had created aRead More

by Freddy Tran Nager, Founder of Atomic Tango + Marketing Forensics Expert… The epic saga continues… I’ve received a few messages and comments from upset college women about my Monica Rockle article. They think that I’m harassing one of their own. Please let me assure you that, as a professor, I would never ever pick on a legitimate student doing a legitimate project. In this case, I didn’t believe the premise or the project from the beginning, and subsequent research supports my skepticism. My wife and female friends would alsoRead More