by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Feb 13, 2021 | Scam of the day
Today is Valentine’s Day. This is a very important day to many people including scammers and identity thieves who always manage to find an opportunity in whatever is current or popular to scam you out of your money. There are many Valentine’s day...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Feb 12, 2021 | Scam of the day
Today’s Scam of the day is about a phishing email that is particularly poorly done. If scams are done by scam artists, this scam was done by a finger painter. It purports to be an invoice from “Gygabyte,” however, there is no such company. ...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Feb 11, 2021 | Scam of the day
In October of 2019 I told you that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) had sued Agora Financial, LLC alleging it scammed seniors into buying books, newsletters and other publications that falsely claimed a cure for type 2 diabetes and also perpetrating a scam related...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Feb 10, 2021 | 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. | Feb 9, 2021 | Scam of the day
SIM card swapping is a major problem. A Subscriber Identity Module, more commonly known as a SIM card, is an integrated circuit that stores information used to authenticate subscribers on mobile devices, such as a cell phone. The SIM card is able to be transferred...
