by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Feb 18, 2022 | Scam of the day
Today’s Scam of the day comes from a regular Scamicide reader and 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 origin of the...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Feb 17, 2022 | Scam of the day
Recently the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) sued American Vehicle Protection Corp. (AVP) alleging that they had scammed consumers out of more than six million dollars through the sale of misleading and deceptive extended car warranties. Extended warranty scams have...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Feb 16, 2022 | Scam of the day
I have been warning you about phony kidnapping scams, also known as virtual kidnapping, for nine years and according to the FBI, the scam is increasing in frequency. The scam starts with a telephone call informing the person answering the phone that a child or other...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Feb 15, 2022 | Scam of the day
Recently a lawsuit was filed by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and the Attorneys General of 27 states against precious metals company Safeguard Metals LLC and its owner Jeffrey Santulan who also used the name Jeffrey Hill accusing the company of...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Feb 14, 2022 | Scam of the day
Social media is incredibly popular and, as I have warned you many times, anything popular with the public will always be popular with scammers and so it was not surprising when a recent report of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) indicated that in 2021 scammers...
