by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Nov 20, 2025 | Scam of the day
Each year, computer security company, McAfee releases a list of the most dangerous celebrities on the Internet. These are people whose popularity is exploited by identity thieves and hackers who lure unsuspecting people through links in emails, social media,...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Nov 19, 2025 | Scam of the day
Doordash suffered a major data breach on October 25th, but took 19 days before it notified by email millions of its customers that personal information of theirs had been compromised. The information consisted of names, addresses, phone numbers and email addresses...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Nov 18, 2025 | Scam of the day
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently settled a lawsuit it brought against Amazon in 2023 related to Amazon enrolling millions of customers as Amazon Prime members and then making it difficult for those customers to cancel their Amazon Prime subscriptions. As a...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Nov 17, 2025 | Scam of the day
Laundering money derived from a scam is an essential element of many scams. Scammers can be extremely clever at distancing themselves from their scams in order to avoid detection. The people they enlist either as willing or unknowing participants in the laundering...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Nov 16, 2025 | Scam of the day
In the last few years there has been an increase in reports of scammers calling people on the telephone and telling them that they have won one of the Publishers Clearing House lotteries, but that they have to pay fees or taxes before being able to claim their prize. ...
