by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Sep 30, 2022 | Scam of the day
It was only a week ago that I wrote about scams related to Hurricane Fiona, but in the light of the devastation brought to Florida by Hurricane Ian, I think it is worth revisiting some of those scams as well as tell you about other storm related scams to be on the...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Sep 29, 2022 | Scam of the day
The foreign exchange transaction app known as MetaTrader has been removed from the Apple App Store although it still is available at the Google Play store. The app has been used in the scam known as “pig butchering.” I first described pig butchering to...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Sep 28, 2022 | Scam of the day
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC and the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation (DFPI) have sued a number of companies and their owners doing business under the names Home Matters USA, Academy Home Services, Atlantic Pacific Service Group and...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Sep 27, 2022 | Scam of the day
Laundering money derived from a scam is an essential element of many scams. Scammers can be extremely clever at distancing themselves from their scams in order to avoid detection. The people they enlist either as willing or unknowing participants in the laundering...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Sep 26, 2022 | Scam of the day
Recently in Providence, Rhode Island a man was scammed out of $2,500 by scammers who called him falsely claiming that they were holding his wife hostage and would kill her unless he paid a ransom. There was no kidnapping, but he paid the ransom before he was able to...
