by Steven Weisman, Esq. | May 16, 2025 | Scam of the day
Receiving a telephone call from a debt collector is not a pleasant experience. Being hounded by someone attempting to collect a debt you do not owe constitutes fraud. In recent years the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has taken action against a number of these...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | May 15, 2025 | Scam of the day
In Homer’s Odyssey, the Trojan horse hid soldiers that when brought through the gates and into the city of Troy led to the fall of Troy. Trojan subscribers are malware hidden within legitimate apps that while they won’t lead to the downfall of a city can...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | May 14, 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. | May 13, 2025 | Scam of the day
OneDrive is a popular cloud storage system of Microsoft that allows you to sync and save documents, pictures and files. Scammers send emails purporting to be from OneDrive, such as the one copied below that I received recently. If you click on the View File, you...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | May 12, 2025 | Scam of the day
With last year’s April 15th income tax deadline not even a month behind us, it may seem too early to think about income tax identity theft, but it is important to remember that income tax identity theft, by which identity thieves file phony income tax returns...
