by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Apr 5, 2025 | Scam of the day
A report from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) indicates a 1,000 % increase in money lost to scammers through Bitcoin ATMs in the last three years with consumers reporting losses of more than 111 million dollars last year. Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency ATMs...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Apr 4, 2025 | Scam of the day
For more than seven years I have written about various scammers selling green coffee bean extracts as a weight loss product through the use of false and misleading advertising. Some of the scammers have claimed green coffee bean extracts would enable users to lose 17...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Apr 3, 2025 | Scam of the day
I have been warning you about sextortion scams for nine years. Some sextortion scams begin with an email in which you are told that your computer and web cam have been hacked and that the scammers have video of you watching porn online. In the email, the scammer...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Apr 2, 2025 | Scam of the day
For many years Medicare used a person’s Social Security number as his or her Medicare number which put Medicare recipients in serious danger of identity theft, Medicare resisted changing the Medicare number to a safer random number for many years. Finally, in...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Apr 1, 2025 | Scam of the day
With the due date for filing you federal income tax return rapidly approaching, 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...
