by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jun 30, 2012 | Scam of the day, Site Related
A scam that has become increasingly popular with scammers involves getting the name and basic business information about a legitimate lawyer and then setting up a phony website in the lawyer’s name. Often the scammers merely steal the business cards for...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jun 29, 2012 | Scam of the day, Site Related
The late Johnny Carson used to host a television show entitled Who Do You Trust?” If there are any English teachers reading this, they know it should have been “Whom Do You Trust,” but why quibble? I bring up this trip down memory lane because if...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jun 28, 2012 | Scam of the day, Site Related
As I recently indicated in a recent “scam of the day,” technologically savvy scammers have used their knowledge of the algorithms used by Google, Yahoo, Bing and other search engines to have the phony websites of the scammers come to the top of the list...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jun 27, 2012 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Advertisements for phony charities are starting to appear on Craigslist. A particularly despicable one that was uncovered this week is for a phony charity asking for donations to help pay for the medical costs of a soldier wounded in Afghanistan. The advertisement...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jun 26, 2012 | Scam of the day, Site Related
The New York Attorney General just announced a settlement with Hedge Fund Manager Ezra Merkin, by which Merkin will pay 410 million dollars to victims of Bernie Madoff’s Ponzi scheme. Merkin was reportedly managing his clients’ investments by merely...
