by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Mar 11, 2022 | Scam of the day
Convicted Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff who stole 50 billion dollars from unsuspecting victims may be the last person from whom you would accept investing advice, but in fact, his advice, as contained in a 2014 jailhouse interview Madoff gave to the Wall Street Journal...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Mar 10, 2022 | Scam of the day
Shopping on Amazon, has been popular for a long time, but particularly during the continuing pandemic shopping on Amazon has increased dramatically and with so many people shopping on Amazon, scammers are using Amazon as the basis for a variety of scams. According to...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Mar 9, 2022 | Scam of the day
A number of legitimate charities have been soliciting donations of cryptocurrencies to help the people of Ukraine devastated by the Russian invasion. Even the Ukrainian government itself has been seeking donations of cryptocurrencies to help purchase military...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Mar 8, 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...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Mar 7, 2022 | Scam of the day
Today’s Scam of the day is one about which I have written in the past, as recently as a little over a month ago, however it continues to pop up frequently as evidenced by a Scamicide reader who recently was targeted by a Facebook cloner. If one of your friends...