by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jul 6, 2023 | Scam of the day
Sometimes we are our own worst enemy when it comes to posting too much personal information on social media that can be leveraged by a criminal for purposes of identity theft. During the earlier days of the pandemic many people posted photos of their vaccination...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jul 5, 2023 | Scam of the day
It was just a month ago that I told you about a new scam where scammers lured people into providing their bank account number and bank’s routing number to the scammer under the pretense of needing the information in order to send you a reward for finding a...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jul 4, 2023 | Scam of the day
According to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) consumers lost 228 million dollars last year to scams in which gift cards were used as the payment method and this number has increased each year since 2018. Scammers are big fans of gift cards because they are easy...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jul 3, 2023 | Scam of the day
I have written often about phony student loan debt relief companies and with good reason. More than forty-two million Americans have student loans with an outstanding balance of more than 1.4 trillion dollars so it is no surprise that scammers are focusing their...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jul 2, 2023 | Scam of the day
Scams involving utility bills for electric, water or gas services have long been popular with scammers. Pacific Gas & Electric in California is reporting scams targeting utility customers are at an all-time high and this scam is being perpetrated all around the...
