by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jan 21, 2019 | Scam of the day
Scammers are always exploiting whatever is timely, whether it is holiday shopping scams, income tax filing scams or charitable donation scams following a natural disaster. With the partial government shutdown leaving many furloughed workers looking for temporary...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jan 21, 2019 | Scam of the day
Medicare has used a person’s Social Security number as his or her Medicare number since the inception of Medicare in 1965 and despite the rest of the country recognizing that this put Medicare recipients in serious danger of identity theft, Medicare resisted...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jan 19, 2019 | Scam of the day
It was only a few days ago that I told you about recent Federal Trade Commission (FTC) actions against a scammer operating a phony debt relief business. Today, I am reporting to you about a bigger FTC judgment against another debt relief scammer who has been order to...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jan 18, 2019 | Scam of the day
I have written numerous times about the grandparent scam for seven years. By now, I am sure you are familiar with the basics of the grandparent scam where a grandparent receives a telephone call from someone purporting to be their grandchild who has gotten into some...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jan 17, 2019 | Scam of the day
Gift cards form the basis of many scams, most prominently when scammers posing as government officials such as IRS employees demand payment of phony income taxes through gift cards. However, lost in the many scam uses of gift cards is the value of gift cards as...
