by admin | Dec 31, 2017 | Scam of the day
Earlier this week criminal charges of wire fraud, conspiracy and computer fraud were brought against two Romanians, Mihai Alexandru Isvanca and Eveline Cismaru. The headlines in various media reporting this story were very misleading as they focused on the hacking of...
by admin | Dec 30, 2017 | Scam of the day
Earlier this week the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) filed a complaint in Federal Court against Ronnie Montano, Hyong Su Kim, Martin Schranz and their companies that the FTC alleges they used to scam consumers out of millions of dollars through sales of phony...
by admin | Dec 29, 2017 | Scam of the day
The Consumer Finance Protection Bureau (CFPB) and the Veterans Administration (VA) have recently issued a joint Warning Order to present and former members of the military warning them about scammers contacting them with offers to refinance VA mortgages. These...
by admin | Dec 28, 2017 | Scam of the day
It must be phishing season. Phishing emails in which you are lured under the pretense of an emergency to click on a link or download an attachment are an extremely popular tool of scammers who infect the links and attachments with malware that can result in your...
by admin | Dec 27, 2017 | Scam of the day
According to a civil forfeiture filing in the Federal District Court for Minnesota, a Minnesota woman had been scammed into sending $60,770 in a little over a year to a scammer who she had met on Match.com who had convinced her that he loved her. I have written many...
