by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Mar 15, 2024 | Scam of the day
Malware downloaded on to your phone, computer or tablet can cause you many problems including making you a victim of identity theft, stealing your bank account or other assets or making you a victim of a wide variety of scams. The two most common ways that malware is...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Mar 14, 2024 | Scam of the day
Scammers around the world are using Facebook to take advantage of real funerals to scam people. In one variation of this scam he scammers set up fake Facebook pages posing as a local funeral director and provide a link to a funeral service for someone who had...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Mar 13, 2024 | Scam of the day
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a report about the prevalence of scams that are initiated through text messages and among the top five in the FTC’s list was car wrap scams. In a previous Scam of the day, I told you about Caitlin Driscoll of...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Mar 12, 2024 | Scam of the day
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently settled its lawsuit against Roman Cresto, John Cresto and Andrew Chapman whose companies Automators AI, Empire Ecommerce and Onyx Distribution scammed people it sold phony online stores supposedly powered by AI. As a result...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Mar 11, 2024 | Scam of the day
With the due date for filing you federal income tax return approaching in a month, many people are filing their taxes at this time with almost 94% of individual income tax returns being filed electronically. TurboTax is a popular online tax preparation service and so...
