by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Apr 10, 2021 | Scam of the day
For profit universities have been a target of state and federal investigations for years. I have written about this topic since 2012. It should be noted that not all for profit colleges are scams, but there are a large number of for profit colleges, sometimes...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Apr 9, 2021 | Scam of the day
Impostor scams have long been among the most lucrative for scammers. While there are many variations of this scam, the most common variations have involved scammers calling their intended victims on the telephone posing as some governmental agency such as the IRS or...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Apr 8, 2021 | Scam of the day
Investment scammer Anthony Diaz was recently sentenced to 17.5 years in prison upon his conviction of eleven counts of fraud related to his scamming his clients out of millions of dollars. Diaz was a financial planner who convinced his clients to invest in high risk,...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Apr 7, 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. | Apr 6, 2021 | Scam of the day
As was made abundantly clear by 2017’s massive Equifax data breach which affected 148 million people and was perpetrated by exploiting a vulnerability in Apache software for which Apache had already issued a security update, but Equifax failed to install, ...
