by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Feb 19, 2024 | Scam of the day
In the scam of the day for September 29, 2022 I first told you that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC and the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation (DFPI) had sued a number of companies and their owners doing business under the names Home...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Feb 18, 2024 | Scam of the day
In November of 2018 I first told you about the Federal Trade Commission suing a Florida based company, Simple Health Plans LLC, its owner, Steven J. Dorfman and officers on charges that Simple Health Plans scammed unwary consumers out of more than a hundred million...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Feb 17, 2024 | Scam of the day
It seems just about everywhere you look on television and online, reporters are now issuing dire warnings about gift card scams. This, however, is nothing new. Longtime readers of Scamicide may remember that I have been warning you about these scams since 2012. Two...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Feb 16, 2024 | Scam of the day
As I first reported to you in 2014, the federal Office of Personnel Management (OPM) was hacked by Chinese hackers who stole personal information of more than 21 million present and former federal employees as well as non-employees whose information was gathered by...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Feb 15, 2024 | Scam of the day
Every year the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) releases its list of the biggest scams of the year. 2023 was a banner year for scammers with victims reporting losing 10 billion dollars to scams which is 1.2 billion dollars more than in 2022 and the true amount of money...
