by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Aug 31, 2023 | Scam of the day
The FBI recently issued a warning about scammers infecting malware in mobile beta testing apps. Everyone uses a multitude of apps, but before they are formally made available, it is common for legitimate developers to make a limited number of the apps available for...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Aug 30, 2023 | Scam of the day
In November 12, 2018’s Scam of the day I first told you that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) had started a legal action against Andris Pukke and five other defendants in regard to a massive real estate scam allegedly masterminded by Pukke, a previously...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Aug 29, 2023 | Scam of the day
In recent years, I have written many times about the myriad of cryptocurrency scams that have cost people billions of dollars. According to the FBI, Americans lost more than 2.5 billion dollars to cryptocurrency investment scams. In some instances, law enforcement...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Aug 28, 2023 | Scam of the day
In a new scam, scammers posing as local humane societies or animal control officers are calling pet owners who have lost pets telling them that they have found the pet and ask for an immediate payment over the phone in order to retrieve their lost pet. Recently, the...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Aug 27, 2023 | Scam of the day
I have been warning you about sextortion scams for seven years. Last December, the FBI issued a new warning about sextortion. Generally sextortion scams begin with an email in which you are told that your computer and web cam have been hacked and that the scammers...
