by Steven Weisman, Esq. | May 6, 2022 | Scam of the day
The Federal Trade Commission sued the Saint James School of Medicine, a for-profit medical school located on the Caribbean island of Anguilla for its deceptive marketing practices by which they lured students with false representations of the pass rates of their...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | May 5, 2022 | Scam of the day
Pump and dump scams have been with us for hundreds of years, however recently they have evolved to keep pace with today’s world of finance. A Pump and dump scheme is most often done with low priced stocks referred to as “penny stocks.” The scammers...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | May 4, 2022 | Scam of the day
Today is World Password Day, which is a day dedicated toward inspiring people to choose better passwords for their various online accounts. Each year the password manager company NordPass does a study of the worst passwords commonly used. These easily discerned...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | May 3, 2022 | Scam of the day
PayPal is a popular payment service used successfully by many people particularly when making purchases through eBay. However, because it is so popular with the public, it is also popular with scammers who over the years have created numerous PayPal based scams about...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | May 2, 2022 | Scam of the day
Clever scam artists, the only criminals we refer to as artists, are increasingly setting up phony websites that appear to be for customer service or tech support of many of the companies with which we regularly do business. They also purchase telephone numbers that...
