by Steven Weisman, Esq. | May 16, 2024 | Scam of the day
The Department of Homeland Security has launched a task force to combat gift card draining, a scam in which criminals use stolen or altered gift card numbers to drain money from gift cards before the purchaser of the gift card can spend it. The task force named...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | May 15, 2024 | Scam of the day
Online banks and banking service providers offer desktop and mobile banking services without actual brick and mortar physical branches. Because these banks don’t have to pay for the cost of maintaining buildings, they are often able to pass the savings on to their...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | May 14, 2024 | Scam of the day
The most effective scams are the ones that capitalize on real things that apply to you. Many people are familiar with the REAL ID, which is a new version of your driver’s license mandated by federal law. The federal REAL ID Act established new security...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | May 13, 2024 | Scam of the day
According to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) last year more scams originated through text messages than phone calls and text message scams in which the scammers pose as your bank were the most common text message scam. Phony text messaging, called smishing, which ...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | May 12, 2024 | Scam of the day
In 2021, the FTC settled its claims against Career Education Corp. (CEC) and as a result first sent refunds totaling thirty million dollars to victims of CEC’s scams as I told you at that time. CEC bought leads from companies that constructed bogus websites to...
