by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Apr 25, 2012 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Not even the dead are immune from identity theft and this particular type of identity theft is now on the rise. One way this occurs is when scammers merely check out the latest obituaries and then go to a free totally available data bank called the Death Master File...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Apr 24, 2012 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Although the economy does seem to be making some improvements, the numbers of people facing foreclosure is still huge and that provides a great opportunity for scammers. In my “scam of the day” of April 6 and April 16th I warned you about some of these...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Apr 22, 2012 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Many scams lure us in because they seem so close to legitimate business opportunities. It is true that companies pay people to advertise their logos in vinyl decals on individuals’ cars. The vinyl decal is called an auto wrap and there are companies that...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Apr 22, 2012 | Scam of the day, Site Related
The SEC has just filed charges against two brothers in England alleging that they scammed 75,000 people through a scheme in which they touted a penny stock picking robot that they had developed that could identify stocks about to double in value. The two...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Apr 21, 2012 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Following closely on the heels of the theft of the medical records of approximately 780,000 people in Utah that I reported on in the “scam of the day” for April 12th, another major example of medical identity theft has occurred, this time in South Carolina...
