by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Feb 23, 2022 | Scam of the day
The phony invoice scam is a common scam popular with scammers because it is quite effective. It starts when you receive an email that purports to be from a popular company with which many of us do business that indicates that you owe them a significant payment. The...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Feb 22, 2022 | Scam of the day
In 2018 the Federal Trade Commission sued FBA Stores and others involved in a scam operated by them in which they sold their “Amazing Wealth System” by which you could get rich selling products on Amazon with ads that said “Get started selling on...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Feb 21, 2022 | Scam of the day
In 2019 I told you about the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Utah Division of Consumer Protection sued Zurixx, LLC, a company that pus on real estate seminars in which attendees were supposedly told how to make large amounts of money buying houses, quickly...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Feb 20, 2022 | Scam of the day
Dropbox is a popular service that enables you to store photos, documents and other information in the cloud. I recently received an email from someone whose name I did not recognize that purported to include a document stored in Dropbox. I was instructed to click on...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Feb 19, 2022 | 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...
