by admin | Feb 25, 2018 | Scam of the day
We are all familiar with the infamous Nigerian email scam in which you are promised great sums of money if you assist a Nigerian in his effort to transfer money out of his country. Variations of this scam include the movement of embezzled funds by corrupt officials,...
by admin | Feb 24, 2018 | Scam of the day
Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced earlier this week the largest coordinated actions against perpetrators of elder fraud in American history. Along with the Justice Department, other federal agencies including the Federal Trade Commission as well as state...
by admin | Feb 22, 2018 | Scam of the day
Human tragedies such as the murder of seventeen people at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland Florida bring out the best charitable impulses of many people, but unfortunately, they also bring out the worst impulses in scammers who use tragedies such...
by admin | Feb 22, 2018 | Scam of the day
According to a recent report of the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA), the IRS failed to notify 458,658 people who the IRS had determined were victims of “employment identity theft” which occurs when someone steals a person’s...
by admin | Feb 21, 2018 | Scam of the day
Prisoners serving their sentences have a lot of time on their hands and it appears that many of them are using that time to make a variety of scam phone calls using contraband cell phones smuggled into the prisons. Georgia Attorney General issued a warning about phone...