by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Sep 10, 2019 | Scam of the day
With over a billion users, Instagram is extremely popular and once again, anything popular with the public is popular with scammers. Recently there have been reports that many Instagram users have had their accounts hacked and taken over. In many instances the...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Sep 9, 2019 | Scam of the day
Many people may not remember the name of Mavis L. Wanczyk, but she was the lucky winner of a 758 million dollar Powerball drawing in 2017. Not long after she claimed her prize, a scam started appearing in which many people received an email with the message line...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Sep 8, 2019 | Scam of the day
Another scam that continues to plague unwary people is the Pastor Text Message Scam about which I first warned you in June of 2017. Recently Pastor Randy Ott became aware that someone wasusing contact information from the Church’s newsletter to send out text...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Sep 7, 2019 | Scam of the day
I have warned you many times over the years about romance scams, but they continue to be used by scammers to steal money from lonely people. Last week an Ohio woman reported being scammed out of more than $50,000 through a romance scam that began on Match.com. ...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Sep 6, 2019 | Scam of the day
I have been warning you for a couple of years about extortion emails in which the intended victim is told in the email that his computer and web cam have been hacked and that the scammers have video of him watching porn online. They threaten to send the videos to...
