by Steven Weisman, Esq. | May 17, 2020 | Scam of the day
Even before the Coronavirus pandemic, unemployment benefit scams were already a major problem costing the states and federal government billions of dollars each year. Part of the problem is that the federal government requires the states to pay claims within a few...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | May 16, 2020 | Scam of the day
Recently, the Treasury Department announced that it had electronically sent more than 200 billion dollars of CARES Act stimulus payments to approximately 130 million Americans in the program’s first four weeks. Payments under the CARES Act are determined in the...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | May 15, 2020 | Scam of the day
Today’s Scam of the day is another version of the Nigerian email scam that continues to plague the online community. Although it may seem that the Nigerian email scam began in the era of the Internet, the basis of the scam actually goes back to 1588 when it was...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | May 14, 2020 | Scam of the day
Personal information including birth date, gender, website activity, cell phone number, username, email address and hashed passwords of 3.5 million users of the dating site MobiFriends have recently been discovered to have been made available to cybercriminals on the...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | May 13, 2020 | Scam of the day
Taking the SAT test as a part of a high school student’s application process for college is a stressful event for many high school students and it has only gotten worse with the cancellation of the SAT test dates this Spring due to the Coronavirus pandemic. If...
